Cause 288 n. 250, 382 n. a; The Hypochondriack, proposed collected edition of the first forty numbers 864; journal: its accuracy 295 n. a; entries made in company 952; four nights in one week given to it 243; imperfectly kept or neglected 298, 460, 706, 709, 715, 726–7, 818, 824, 901, 914, 919, 920, 928, 936, 945–6; kept one in his youth 229; kept with industry 5; kept in quarto and octavo volumes 810; sat up all night on it 243; S.J. – advises him to keep one 229, 375, 453; – pleased with it 664; – helps to record a conversation 664; – reminded that it is kept 762; – quoted or mentioned 213, 645; journal, Ashbourne 635; read by Forbes 635; journal, Chester 748; Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: attacks on it 626; criticized 6; extensive circulation 403, 626; praised: by him 17 n. a; – by others 4, 6, 404; motto 626 n. 721; passages in, repeated by J.B. in the Life 30; quoted or referred to by J.B. in the Life 4, 22, 228 n. a, 922 n. a; read in MS by Mrs Thrale 465; Letter to the People of Scotland against Diminishing the Number of the Lords of Session (1785): mentions George III, 122 n. 90; quotes on the juries of England 526 n. b; Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation (1783) 905–7; sent to Pitt and other eminent persons 907 n. a; Letters of Lady Jane Douglas 288 n. 250; The Life of Johnson (chronological): progress through the press 5; composed in part by Manning 941; printed by Baldwin, see Others: Baldwin, Henry; editions, see Others: Malone, Edmond; additions and corrections to it 7; addenda and new notes to the third edition 9; may be assimilated to the Odyssey 8; compared with the Tour 4; editorial technique – treatment of journal or other raw material 287, 544; – missing words supplied 846 n. a; treatment of persons – of the dead 19 n. b; – of Goldsmith 219; – of Hawkins 19 n. b, 42; – of Monboddo 914 n. b; – of Mrs Piozzi 42, 43 n. a; opinions of – general commendation 8; – praised by Abercrombie 370; by friends or contemporaries of Johnson 973 n. a; – by Dr Knox 983 n. b; – by Reynolds 7; – depreciated by Steevens and Blagden 675 n. 801; ‘A Matrimonial Thought’, a song 317; Scots Magazine, contributes to 66; ‘Thesis in Civil Law’ 271–4; Travels on the Continent, wishes to publish 685, 685 n. a.
OTHERS
Abercrombie, Revd James (1758–1841): 186 n. e, 370, 388 n. b
Aberdeen, bishop of, see Campbell, Hon. and Revd Archibald
Abernethy, Dr John (1680–1740), Presbyterian minister; moderator of the general synod (1715–16); campaigned for the religious and political liberties of Dissenters; repudiated Calvinism; author of Reasons for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test (1733), Discourses concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God (2 vols., 1740) and Sermons on Various Subjects (4 vols., 1748–51): 617 n. a, 914 n. a
Abington, Mrs Frances (1737–1815), actress; after some success at Drury Lane, enjoyed enormous fame in Dublin in roles such as Mrs Sullen, in The Beaux’ Stratagem (1759); returned to London to become one of the leading comedy actresses of her generation (1765); fractious correspondence with Garrick; most celebrated for role of Lady Teazle, a part written for her, in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal (1777); admired by S.J.; fashion role model: 434, 436, 439, 448
Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of (1740–90), politician; independent who co-operated with Rockingham and Chatham oppositional parties of 1770s and early 1780s; vocal critic of the administration’s American policies; supporter of second Rockingham administration; patron in London music scene; involved in effort to bring Haydn to England; accomplished flautist: 759 n. a
Abreu, Marquis of: 189
Adam, Robert (d. 1792) and James (d. 1794), architects: 436, 609, 759
Adams, Dr William (1706–89), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford; Church of England clergyman; tutor of S.J. at Pembroke College, Oxford, remarking ‘I was his nominal tutor, but he was above my mark’; archdeacon of Llandaff (1777); attended first performance of S.J.’s Irene (1749); author of An Essay on Mr Hume’s Essay on Miracles (1752); encouraged