Index of articles 1960-1969

1960

W.R. Matthews, 'Address on Bishop Berkeley', p. 2

L.F. Powell, 'A Friend of Johnson: Dr. Birkbeck Hill', p. 4

Frederick Nixon, 'Our English Socrates', p. 11

Reviews: J. H. L[eicester] on Hilles, Frederick W. Hilles, (ed.), New Light on Dr. Johnson, p. 14

F. N. D[oubleday] on F. L. Lucas, The Search for Good Sense, p. 17

Notes, p. 17

Obituary: M. W. on Dr. Hurst, p. 19

1961

Editorial: 'Edward Gibbon', p. 2

R.W. Ketton-Cremer, 'Commemorative Address', p. 5

Charles Parish, 'Johnson's Books and the Birmingham Library', p. 7

Maurice J. Quinlan, 'Johnson's Sense of Charity', p. 21

[Geoffrey] Tillotson, 'Johnson on Poetry - Chapter X of Rasselas' [in précis], p. 23

Reviews: H.A. Morgan on Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774, p. 23

T.S. Blakeney on Donald J. Green[e], The Politics of Samuel Johnson, p. 26

F.N. Doubleday on D.M. Low (ed.), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon, p. 26

A.G. Dowdeswell on Bertram H. Davis, Johnson Before Boswell, p. 27

Notes, pp. 6, 22, 28

1962

D.M. Low, 'Commemorative Address', p. 2

Russell Brain Bart, 'Dr. Johnson and His Doctors', p.4

F.N.D[oubleday], 'Edmund Malone', p. 12

A.R. Winnett, 'Trinity College, Dublin, in the Age of Johnson', p. 13

Malcolm Morley, 'No Apology for Colley Cibber', p. 25

Reviews: H.A. Morgan on Walter Jackson Bate, The Achievement of Samuel Johnson, p. 30

Theodora Roscoe on G.P. Gooch, French Profiles, p. 31

F.N. Doubleday on Robert Voitle, Samuel Johnson the Moralist, p. 32

1963 - January

W.R. Matthews, 'William Law', p. 2

John Hardy, 'Shakespeare - the Poet of Nature & Intellectual Nature', p. 10

W.S. Scott, 'The Pleasure Gardens and Their Place in the Social Life of London in the Age of Johnson', p. 20

M. Angèle, 'Samuel Johnson's View of the Catholic Church', p. 29

Notes, pp. 9, 28

Reviews [notices], p. 38

Obituary: G.P. Gooch on Theodora Roscoe, p. 38

F.N.D[oubleday] on F.C. Coleman, p. 38

1963 - June

H.A. Morgan, 'Commemorative Address', p. 2

F.W.M Draper, 'Topham Beauclerk at the Grove, Muswell Hill', p. 5

H.A. Morgan, 'Johnson in the Schools', p. 9

Sydney Roberts, 'Estimate Brown', p. 12

Editorial, '1963', p. 13

'Adam Fox' [notice of his retirement], p. 15

Reviews, F.N. D[oubleday] on George Watson, The Literary Critics, p. 16

F.N. D[oubleday] on Clarence Tracy (ed.), The Poetical Works of Richard Savage, p. 18

Notes: James Osborn, 'Malone & Johnson', p. 11, 20

1964 - January

Frederick Nixon, 'Commemorative Address', p. 2

R.W. Ketton-Cremer, 'William Cole, Friend of Walpole and Gray', p. 5

Arthur Johnston, 'Dr. Johnson, John Dyer and the Ruins of Rome', p. 11

Phyllis Rowell, 'The Women in Johnson's Life', p. 22

Obituary Notices: , F.N. D[oubleday] on T.D. Fitzgerald, p. 10

Frederick Nixon on William Kent, p. 28

Reviews, Geoffrey Tillotson on E.L. McAdam, Jr. and George Milne, Johnson's Dictionary, A Modern Selection, p. 29

Eric M. Bonner on C. Ryskamp, Boswell, The Ominous Years, 1774-1776, p. 31

F.N. D[oubleday] on John Butt, (ed.), The Poems of Alexander Pope, p. 32

J. H. Leicester on Henry Darcy Curwen (ed.), A Johnson Sampler, p. 34

Programme for Spring Session 1964, p. 30

Note, p. 4

1964 - June

J. H. Leicester, 'Dr. Johnson and Isaac Watts', p. 2

Lawrence C. McHenry, 'Medical Case Notes on Samuel Johnson in the Heberden Manuscripts', p. 11

'Johnson and Dr Burney, a Report', p. 16

Note: An Important Johnson Discovery, p. 10

Obituary Notice: W.H. Graham, p. 19

Reviews , A.R. Winnett on Maurice J. Quinlan, Samuel Johnson: A Layman's Religion, p. 20

F.N. Doubleday on Sydney Roberts (ed.), Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets, p. 23.

Balance Sheet for 1963, p. 25

1965 - January

Mrs. Michael Waterhouse, 'Commemorative Address given in Westminster Abbey', p. 2

F.W.M. Draper, 'Johnson's Friend Baretti', p. 5

'The Johnson Club', p. 12

'A Correspondent', 'Dr. Johnson's Summerhouse', p. 18

Francis E. Skipp, 'Johnson and Boswell Afloat', p. 21

Review: Marguerite E. Dowdeswell on J.A. Cochrane, Dr. Johnson's Printer: The Life of William Strahan, p. 28

Notes, pp. 4, 17, 29

1965 - June

Helen Gardner, 'Johnson on Shakespeare', p. 2

H. Mac L. Currie, 'Johnson and the Classics', p. 13

Arthur Brown, 'James Lackington, Bookseller (1746-1815)', p. 28

Summary of W.W. Robson, a talk on 'T.S. Eliot as a Critic of Dr. Johnson', p. 42

Reviews: D.M. Low on John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson, p. 43.

Frederick Nixon on Charles G. Smith, Shakespeare's Proverb Lore, p. 44

J.H. Leicester on Roger Lonsdale, Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography, p. 45

Obituary: Rolv Laache, p. 27

Notes, pp. 12, 41, 47

Balance Sheet for 1964, p. 48

1966 - January

'Lawrence Fitzroy Powell', p. 2

F.N. Doubleday, 'Commemorative Address', p. 4

Ross Wilson, 'Johnson and Gin', p. 7

James B. Misenheimer, 'Dr. Johnson on the Essay', p. 13

A.J. Sambrook, 'Dr. Johnson - Civil Engineer', p. 18

Reviews, Frederick Nixon on The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. VI: Poems, p. 6

Lewis Radon on R.T. Davies, Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings, p. 23

1966 - June

A.R. Winnett, 'Johnson and Hume', p. 2

George M. Kahrl, 'Garrick, Johnson, and Lichfield', p. 15

John I. McCollom, Jr., 'The Indebtedness of James Boswell to Edmond Malone', p. 29

Frederick Nixon, 'An Appreciation of the retiring Editor, the Rev. F. N. Doubleday', p. 46

Review, J.H. Leicester, on Paul Fussell, The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke, p. 46

Johnson Society Notes, pp. 45, 48

1967 - January

Ross Wilson, 'Commemorative Address', p. 2

Adam Fox, 'Johnson's Strictures Upon Pious Poetry', p. 4

W.S. Scott, 'Peg Woffington and Her Circle', p. 14

Ross Wilson, 'Dr. Johnson and Wine', p. 24

Obituary notice: A.G. Dowdeswell on Sir Sydney Roberts, p. 3

Notes, p. 13

1967 - June

Ian Jack, 'The Deserted Village', p. 2

Douglas Grant, 'Samuel Johnson: Satire and Satirists', p. 5

Lois M.G. Spencer, 'Johnson and Cowley', p. 18

'Johnson in Miniature?', p. 32

Duncan Isles, 'Johnson and Charlotte Lennox', p. 34

'Harlequin Rasselas': An extract from a lecture by Professor Mayer on 'Pantomime and Regency Taste', p. 49

Notes, pp. 4, 17, 51

1968 - January

A.R. Winnett, 'Commemorative Address', p. 2

R.W. Ketton-Cremer, 'Johnson and the Antiquarian World', p. 5

Obituary notice: Henry Angus Morgan, p. 11

James B. Misenheimer, 'Dr. Johnson on Prose Fiction', p. 12

Lester Goodman, 'Samuel Johnson's Review of Soame Jenyns' A Free Inquiry Into the Nature and Origin of Evil: A Re-examination', p. 19

T.S. Blakeney, 'Queen Charlotte: Fanny Burney's Employer' [Part I], p. 24

Review, H. MacL. Currie on Rachel Trickett, The Honest Muse: A Study in Augustan Verse, p. 37

Donald J. Winslow, 'The "Mr. Boswell" Exhibition', p. 38

Notes, pp. 11, 18, 37, 38, 40

1968 - June

T.S. Blakeney, 'Queen Charlotte: Fanny Burney's Employer' [Part II], p. 3

Geoffrey Bullough, 'Johnson the Essayist', p. 16

Obituary notice: A.G. Dowdeswell on Mr. Michael Waterhouse, p. 33

Reviews, H. MacL. Currie on Herbert Barrows (ed.), Hester Lynch Piozzi's Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy and Germany, p. 34

Ross Wilson on J.P. Hardy, The Political Writings of Samuel Johnson, p. 36

L.F. Powell on J.D. Fleeman, A Preliminary Handlist of Documents and Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson, p. 38

Ronald, Mac Keith, 'The Death Mask of Samuel Johnson', p. 41

Notes, p. 48

Plates, pp. 2, 47

1969 - January

Richard Clements, 'Erskine for the Defence', p. 2

Douglas Woodruff, 'Dr. Johnson and his Catholic Contemporaries', p. 17

Obituary notice: F.W.M. Draper, p. 23

Obituary notice: G.P. Gooch, p. 23

Ross Wilson, 'The Dictionary and Drink', p. 24

Obituary notice: Oliver D. Savage, p. 43

Terence Brown, 'America and the Americans as seen in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and in the Letters of Johnson and Boswell', p. 44

Book reviews, Terry Belanger on Carl Brinitzer, Dr. Johnson und Boswell, p. 52,

J.H. Leicester on F.E. Halliday, Doctor Johnson and his World, p. 55

Notes, pp. 53, 56

1969 - June

Isobel Grundy, 'Some Unpublished Early Verse of Henry Fielding', p. 2

David D. Brown, 'Johnson and Pulpit Eloquence', p. 19

Lloyd B. Lacy, 'Samuel Johnson and William Lauder: Malevolence in the Criticism of Milton', p. 38

Leslie M. Thompson, 'Vanity Fair and the Johnsonian Tradition of Fiction', p. 45

Book Review, W.J. Bate (ed.), Samuel Johnson, Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer and Idler, p. 50

Programme of Meetings 1969/70, p. 51

Notes, pp. 18, 37, 44, 49

Index of articles 1970-1979

1970 – January

James H. Leicester, ‘Commemorative Address’, p. 2

J. Carter Rowland, ‘The Controversy Over Johnson’s Burial’, p. 5

Helen Forsyth, ‘Samuel Johnson: A Sonnet’, p. 11

John C. Bowmer, ‘Dr. Johnson and John Wesley’, p. 12

Review: David Brown on James Downey, The Eighteenth Century Pulpit: A Study of the Sermons of Butler, Berkeley, Secker, Sterne, Whitefield and Wesley, p. 26

Book notice, p. 28

Eric M. Bonner, ‘Lord Monboddo’, p. 29

Obituaries: Victor M. Halsted, R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Geoffrey Tillotson, p. 41

1970 – June

E.J Miller, ‘Wilkes and Johnson’, p. 2

Peter Cooper, ‘Dr. Johnson’s Chemistry and the Influence of Boerhaave’, p. 17

Review, H. Diack Johnstone on H. Edmund Poole (ed.), Music, Men, and Manners in France and Italy, 1770, p. 27

Brian W. Alderson, ‘Curiosity Gratified with Wonders – Children and the Experience of Literature’, p. 30

Ross Wilson, ‘Sidelights on Smuggling’, p. 38

Ross Wilson, ‘Loch Ness, Whisky and Dr. Johnson’, p. 41

Programme 1970-71, p. 44

1971 – Spring

F.M. Godgess Roper, ‘Commemorative Address’, p. 2

Review: J.H. Leicester on James L. Clifford, From Puzzles to Portraits: Problems of a Literary Biographer, p. 4

A.R. Winnett, ‘George Psalmanazar’, p. 6

James B. Misenheimer, Jr. ‘Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage: A Survey’, p. 18

Jordan P. Richman, ‘The Political Sermons of Johnson and Swift’, p. 27

Obituary: Frederic Nicklin Doubleday, p. 42

Johnson Society of London Appointments, p. 44

Notes and Notices, pp. 4, 17, 41, 43, 44

1971 – Autumn

John L. Abbott, ‘Dr. Johnson and Dr. Hawkesworth: A Literary Friendship’, p. 2

‘Tetty Way’, p. 21

David Fong, ‘Johnson, Goldsmith, and The Traveller,’ p. 22

Margaret Bryan, ‘Johnson’s Use of English Names in the Periodical Essays’, p. 31

E. Ross A Wilson, ‘Brewing and Lichfield’, p. 39

Samuel E. Longmire, ‘The Critical Significance of Rambler 4’, p. 40

J.H. Leicester, ‘To Johnsonise the Land’, p. 48

Oliver D. Savage, ‘Trivia, 1941’, p. 50

1972 – Spring

James B. Misenheimer, ‘Commemorative Address’, p. 3

Isobel Grundy, ‘A Moon of Literature: Verse by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’, p. 6

K.K. Yung, ‘The Association Books of Johnson, Boswell, and Mrs. Piozzi in the Birthplace Museum’, p. 23

Jill Rubenstein, ‘The Crisis of Identity in Fanny Burney’s Evelina’, p. 45

Raman Selden, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Tears of Heraclitus’, p. 51

Ronald E. McFarland, ‘”No Abolition of Slavery”: Boswell and the Slave Trade’, p. 55

Notes, pp. 22, 64

1972 – Autumn

James B. Misenheimer, Jr.,  ‘Samuel Johnson’s Christian Humanism and the Function of Literature’, p. 1

Ross Wilson, ‘Dr. Johnson, Henry Thrale and London Brewing’, p. 23

William C. Horne, ‘Violence in Hudibras and Hogarth’s Illustrations’, p. 49

Plate from Hogarth’s Graphic Works, p. 55

Note on Johnson’s Monument, p. 22

1973 – Spring

H. MacL. Currie, ‘Arthur Murphy, Actor and Author’, p. 2

Susan Miller Passler, ‘Arthur Murphy’s “Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, Esq.”: Re-reading a Slighted Critic’, p. 15

Marlene R. Hansen, ‘The Happy Valley: A Version of Hell and a Version of Version of Pastoral’, p. 24

Richard R. Schwartz, ‘Johnson’s Vision of Theodore’, p. 31

Richard C. Frushell on Henry Pettet (ed.), The Correspondence of Edward Young 1683-1765, p. 40

John T. LaVia, ‘Johnson’s Moral Shock as Critical Norm’, p. 43

Notes, pp. 23, 39, 44

1974

B.D. Cosgrove, ‘Samuel Johnson and the Supernatural in Shakespeare’, p. 1

Eric M. Bonner on E.L. Cloyd, James Burnett – Lord Monboddo, p. 22

Theodore L. Steinberg, ‘J & B: Learning to Love the Scotch’, p. 23

James S. Malek, ‘John Home’s Douglas: The Role of Providence’, p. 30

Carmen J. Pomponio, ‘Looking at Johnson’s Life of Dryden’, p. 35

Thomas R. Cleary, ‘Fielding’s First Assault on George Whitefield and Parson Adams’ “Good Turk”’, p. 40

Obituary: Walter Robert Matthews, p. 47

Notes, pp. 22, 46, 48

1975

Graham W. Nicholls, ‘Radical Sam Johnson’, p. 2

Lawrence Fitzroy Powell Memorial Service, p. 9

Richard R. Reynolds, ‘Johnson’s Heroes Before The Life of Savage’, p. 10

Robert H. Tener, ‘R.H. Hutton and Samuel Johnson’, p. 16

Mary Kathryn Williams, ‘The Anti-Hero in The Beggar’s Opera’, p. 20

David K. Jeffrey, ‘Religious Metaphor in Humphry Clinker’, p. 26

Helen Forsyth, ‘Genius – A Definitive Exploration’, p. 29

Gordon P. Hoyle, ‘The Making of Boswellian Museum’, p. 35

Notes, pp. 38, 39, 40

1976

J.S.G. Simmons, ‘Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, 1881-1975’, p. 3

Bertram H. Davis, ‘“Dear Cuz”: The Letters of Thomas Percy to William Cleiveland’, p. 11

James Gray, ‘A Balliol Rival to Dr. Johnson’s Tutor Cornelius Crawfurd’, p. 26

Samuel I. Bellman, ‘Patriotism and Scoundrels and Dr. Johnson: The Last Refuge’, p. 30

Willis J. Monie, ‘Samuel Johnson’s Contribution to the Novel’, p. 39

Dorothy Bilik, ‘Johnson Defines an Audience for the Dictionary’, p. 45

Annual Commemoration 1975, p. 49

Obituary: J.H. L[eicester] on Arthur Grant Dowdeswell, p. 50

Helen Forsyth, ‘Samuel Johnson: A Sonnet’, p. 51

Notes and Advertisements, pp. 38, 44, 51, 52

1977

Lois G. Spencer, ‘Robert Dodsley and the Johnsonian Connexion’, p. 1

Kai Kin Yung, ‘“Poetic Harmony: -- Some Johnsonian Views’, p. 19

Annual Commemoration 1976, p. 32

Michael M. Cohen, ‘The Enchained Heart and the Puzzled Biographer: Johnson’s Life of Savage’, p. 33

Emily H. Patterson, ‘Family and Pilgrimage Themes in Burney’s Evelina’, p. 41

Charmaine Wellington, ‘Dr. Johnson’s Attitude Towards the Education of Women’, p. 49

Auchinleck Boswell Society, p. 58

‘Visit to St. Albans’, p. 58

Obituary: J.H. L[eicester] on Dr. Ronald Mac Keith, p. 59

Johnson Society of London: Presidency and Secretaryship, p. 60

1978

Wendy Nelson-Cave, ‘Charlotte Lennox, First American Woman Playwright’, p. 3

Isobel Grundy, ‘On Reading Johnson for Laughs’, p. 21

‘The New Rambler: Golden Jubilee Issue 1928-1978’, p. 25

Peter Dixon, ‘Johnson and Goldsmith: Comic Theory and Comic Practice’, p. 26

A.R. Winnett, The Commemorative Address, p. 40

A.R. Winnett, ‘Johnson and the Irish’, p. 45

Notes and Advertisements, pp. 63, 64

1978 – Jubilee

Donald Greene, ‘James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1978’, p. 3

Philip Mahone Griffith, ‘The Eidolon of Hawkesworth’s Adventurer’, p. 15

Vincent Liesenfeld and Richard R. Schwartz, ‘Some Allusions, Foreign and Domestic, in Johnson’s London’, p. 19

Helen Forsyth, ‘Samuel Johnson: A Sonnet’, p. 27

James B. Misenheimer, ‘Samuel Johnson, Literary Theory, and the Value of Biography’, p. 29

‘The Johnson Society of London’, p. 37

‘The Golden Jubilee Dinner’, p. 41

‘The New Rambler’, p. 42

‘St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street’, p. 45

‘The Johnson Halfpenny’, p. 47

Notes and Advertisements, pp. 26, 28, 40, 48

Plates, pp. 2, 44, 46

Acknowledgements, p. 36

1979

Frances Hodgess Roper, ‘Jane Eyre and Rasselas: The Influence of Dr. Johnson on Charlotte Bronte’, p. 2

‘The Boundaries of Streatham Park’, p. 9

Mrs. Donald Hyde, ‘The Library Portraits of Streatham Park’, p. 10

Annual Commemoration 1979, p. 24

Mrs. Donald Hyde, The Commemorative Address, p. 25

Book Notice, p. 26

Ross E. Wilson, ‘“… And A Mr. Offely … ”’, p. 27

Ross E. Wilson, ‘House Building on Coll and Tiree’, p. 30

Douglas Wollen, ‘Visit to Bromley Parish Church, Kent’, p. 33

The Streatham Park Doors, p. 33

Tilottama Rajan, ‘Nominal and Verbal Style in Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes’, p. 34

Notes, pp. 32, 42

Index of articles 1980-1989

1980

James B. Misenheimer, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Prose Genres’, p. 3

Ian Bartlett, ‘William Boyce: A Belated Bicentenary Tribute’, p. 16

Graham Nicholls, ‘The Wisdom of Johnson’s Shakespeare’, p. 17

Annual Commemoration 1980, p. 26

Oskar Wellens, ‘The Critical Review’s Reception of Dr. Johnson’, p. 27

E.D.M. Forbes, ‘“Three Halfpence and Twopence Halfpenny”: David Garrick and Samuel Johnson’, p. 40

E.D.M. Forbes, ‘Brief Chronology of David Garrick and Samuel Johnson’, p. 41

Notes: Visit to Wesley’s Chapel, House and Museum, p. 15

         Memorial Tablet to Dean Matthews, p. 39

         Garrick Portrait Acquired for the Nation, p. 46

1981

Helen Forsyth, ‘Nothing of the Bear But His Skin’, p. 2

Annual Commemoration 1981, p. 18

J.D. Fleeman, The Commemorative Address, p. 18

J.D. Fleeman, ‘Editing Johnson’s Journey’, p. 19

Philip Mahone Griffith, ‘Short Fiction in Hawkesworth’s Adventurer (1752-1754)’, p. 21

Jim Steinke, ‘Boswell on the Grand Tour (Germany and Switzerland) 1764: Belle Epoque for the Man in Search of a Character, p. 29

John Wain, ‘A Reading from Frank Barber, A Play in Progress’, p. 42

Ursula Pye, ‘John Phillips – An Eighteenth-Century Hatter’, p. 43

Ross Wilson, ‘Lichfield: The Glory Without the Power’, p. 44

Notes: Obituary Notice: Miss Jean Hickling, p. 20

Academic Awards, p. 20

1982

William Domnarski, ‘Samuel Johnson and the Law’, p. 2

Patrick D. Hundley, ‘Dr Johnson’s Theory of Autobiography’, p. 11

Obituary Notice: Mr Clifford Musgrave, p. 18

John MacInerny, ‘Johnson and the Art of Translation’, p. 19

Elizabeth Jenkins, ‘Dr Johnson and David Garrick – A Friendship’, p. 20

Cecil Farthing, ‘The England Johnson Visited’, p. 21

Anthony Vaughan, ‘Strangled with a Bow-String: A Clear Case of Character Assassination’, p. 21

Charlotte Graves Taylor, ‘Random Thoughts on Rasselas’, p. 22

Mary Webster, ‘Johan Zoffany’, p. 24

Ian Jack, The Commemorative Address 1982, p. 26

Ian Jack, ‘Johnson and Autobiography’, p. 28

Ronald E. McFarland, ‘Considering Boswell’s Poetry’, p. 30

Obituary Notice: Revd Leslie Whiteside, p. 18, 40

Notes, pp. 10, 19, 25, 28, 29

1983

Stella Pigrome, ‘Gilpin and the Picturesque’, p. 3

Clarence Tracy, ‘Richard Graves (1715-1804): The Sprightly Author of The Spiritual Quixote’, p. 17

J.A. Downie, ‘Swift and Johnson: The Problems of the Life of Swift’, p. 26

Douglas Wollen, ‘Samuel Johnson and John Wesley: The Rough and the Smooth’, p. 27

Peter Stockham, ‘Growing up in Lichfield’, p. 27

Mark Kinkead-Weekes, ‘Dr Johnson on the Rise of the Novel’, p. 28

Annual Commemoration 1983, p. 30

James B. Misenheimer, The Commemorative Address, p. 31

James B. Misenheimer with Robert K. O’Neill, ‘The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries and Johnson’s Lexicographic Presence: The Love of Books in Two Centuries’, p. 33

Visit to Westminster Abbey, p. 48

Donald N. Cook, ‘The History of Johnson’s Summer-House’, p. 49

Obituary Notices: Rev Dr Eric Abbott, p. 47

            Miss A. Terry, p. 47

1984 – Commemoration

The Wreathe Laying 1984, p. 2

Frank Collings, ‘Dr Johnson and his Medical Advisers’, p. 3

William Ruddick, ‘Scott and Johnson as Biographers of Dryden’ p. 14

Helen Forsyth, ‘Samuel Johnson: A Sonnet’, p. 27

Leon Garfield, ‘Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Life’, p. 28

Geoffrey Lewis, ‘General Oglethorpe’, p. 29

Ross Wilson, ‘The Enigma of Port and Dr Johnson’, p. 30

John Kerslake, ‘Portraits of Johnson’, p. 32

Isobel Grundy, ‘The Stability of Truth’, p. 35

Martine Watson Brownley, ‘A Note of Gabriel Piozzi and his Wife’s Writing’, p. 45

Book reviews: Isobel M. Grundy on J.D. Fleeman, A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson, p. 48

Isobel M. Grundy on Donald Greene (ed.), Samuel Johnson, p. 50

William Ruddick on Valerie Grosvenor Myer (ed.), Laurence Sterne: Riddles and Mysteries, p. 52

J.H. Leicester on Isobel Grundy (ed.), Samuel Johnson: New Critical Essays, p. 55

J.H. Leicester on Iain Finlayson, The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell, p. 57

J.H. Leicester on Kai Kin Yung et al, Samuel Johnson 1709-84, p. 59

‘The New Rambler “C” Serial’, p. 61

Commemoration Postcards and Souvenirs, p. 62

Johnson’s Statue, p. 64

Boswell’s Coffee House, p. 68

The Commemoration Year, p. 65

The Bi-Centenary Commemoration, p. 69

Notes and Acknowledgements, p. 26, 34, 47, 54, 60, 63

1985-6

D.G. Wilson, ‘Ideas of Illness and Health – 200 Years of Change’, p. 3

G. M. Ditchfield, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Dissenters’, p. 5

J.W.P. Rogers, ‘Dr. Johnson and the English Eccentrics’, p. 7

Ross Wilson, ‘Clubs in the Johnson Age’, p. 8

James E. Reibman, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Law: An Enlightenment View’, p. 9

Jonathan Bate, ‘Johnson and Shakespeare’, p. 11

Christopher Ricks, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Falkland Islands’, p. 13

James B. Misenheimer Jr., ‘Johnson and the Critic as Idealist: Some Reflections on Famous Passages from his Criticism’, p. 16

Chris Reid, ‘Bottling Niagra: Speakers and Reporters in the Late Eighteenth Century House of Commons’, p. 33

David Nokes, ‘Johnson and Swift’, p. 35

Irma S. Lustig, ‘Boswell without Johnson: The Years After’, p. 36

Society Visits, p. 38

The Wreath Laying 1985, p. 38

Book Reviews, J.D. Fleeman on Lyle Larsen, Dr. Johnson’s Household, p. 39

         J.D. Fleeman on Ian Ousby, Literary Britain and Ireland, p. 40.

Ross Wilson, ‘A Note on The Robin Hood Society’, p. 42

G.J. Clingham, ‘A Note on Johnson’s Use of Two Restoration Poems in his “Drury Lane” Prologue’, p. 45

1986-7

From the Editor, p. 2

Yvonne Noble, ‘The Gendering of Flowers and of Honey Bees in the Eighteenth Century’, p. 3, 21

Alan Shelston, ‘Johnson, Watts and Wesley’, p. 4

E. F. Carpenter, ‘Random Reflections’, p. 5

Michael Tree, ‘Johnson and the Anglican Tradition’, p. 6

Ross Wilson, ‘The Johnsonian Era Coffee Houses’, p. 15

Helen-Louise McGuffie, ‘The Harmful Drudge’, p. 17

O.M. Brack Jr., ‘Surviving as a Professional Author: The Case of Samuel Johnson’, p. 19

‘Society Visits’, p. 21

The Wreath Laying 1986, p. 21

Reviews: Rachel Trickett on Isobel Grundy, Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness, p. 24

         Isobel Grundy on D. Greene and J.A. Vance, A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies 1970-85, p. 25

William Fletcher, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Seven Provinces’, p. 27

1987-8

From the Editor, p. 2

R.M. Frampton, ‘Jonas Hanway: A Philanthropist and Founder of the Marine Society’, p. 3

Ernest Heberden, ‘Dr Heberden and Dr Johnson’, p. 9

W.B. Hutchings, ‘Johnson and Juvenal’, p. 21

Nigel Wood, ‘Johnson’s Revisions to his Dictionary’, p. 23

Kate Sparks, ‘The Langtons of Lincolnshire’, p. 28

James Gray, ‘The “Athenian Blockheads”: New Light on Johnson’s Oxford’, p. 30

A.R. Winnett, ‘The Problem of Evil in the 18th Century: Dr Johnson and Soame Jenyns’, p. 46

Society Visits, p. 47

The Wreath Laying 1987, p. 48

Book Review: J.D. Fleeman on N. Page, Dr. Johnson, Interviews and Recollections, p. 48

1988-9

From the Editor, p. 2

Douglas Wollen, ‘Dr Johnson in Wesley’s Letters and Journals’, p. 3

Isobel Grundy, ‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “A Sister of the Quill”’, p. 5

Ken Edward Smith, ‘Johnson as Storyteller’, p. 14

Laura A. Payne, ‘The Success of Johnson’s Irene’, p. 27

James Gray, ‘Dr. Johnson and the Theatre’, p. 37

Michael Payne, ‘Imaginative Licentiousness: Johnson on Shakespearean Tragedy’, p. 38

The Wreath Laying, p. 49

The Diamond Jubilee Luncheon, p. 50

Leslie Martin, ‘Etna Enrag’d: Giuseppe Baretti, 1719-89’, p. 53

Book reviews: Isobel Grundy on Charles H. Hinnant, Samuel Johnson: An Analysis, p. 62

         Laura Payne on Suzanne Bloxam, Walpole’s Queen of Comedy: Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby, p. 63

Books Received for review, p. 65