Note 1036 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 6)
Reading edition
The Houghton Collection was sold in 1779 by the third Earl of Orford, to the Empress of Russia for £40,555. (Walpole's Letters, vii. 227, note 1.)
Reading edition
The Houghton Collection was sold in 1779 by the third Earl of Orford, to the Empress of Russia for £40,555. (Walpole's Letters, vii. 227, note 1.)