Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 9: A Further Miscellany (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Reade, Aleyn Lyell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331902908 ISBN 13: 9781331902904

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

Excerpt from Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 9: A Further Miscellany

While preparing this Part for the press I made an appeal, which was printed in a good many newspapers and periodicals, between May and August 1938, for additions and corrections to all the preceding Parts, so that they could be incorporatedwith those here printed. But it brought practically no useful response, and I had no better luck with a detailed appeal in Notes and Queries, in which I enumerated many of the principal points still requiring elucidation. I am afraid I cannot regard this as evidence that errors do not exist still in plenty, for I know the impossibility of avoiding them, when information is gleaned from so many sources, when so many hands have a share in its collection, and when its final arrangement, collation and presentation in printed form is the work of one very fallible individual. Nor does it weaken my belief that there are many persons who could add to my store, an they had the will. Part X., as already explained in the Preface to Part VIII is to be a straightforward account of Johnson's life down to 1740, in the light of all my researches, and it will also contain completely revised pedigrees, in narrative form, of the Johnson and Ford families. Part XI. Will be the consolidated index.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reseña del editor:

Excerpt from Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 9: A Further Miscellany

To write the Preface to this Part is to a certain extent to go into the confessional box, after a long attempt to evade its humbling discipline. For, while I have been bravely issuing the previous Parts, I have kept lurking in the background a number of problems in connexion with Johnsons kinsfolk that would not yield their solution, and which I have held back in the hope that evidence would turn up to save me from the admission of defeat. But this is the last Part of the series in which any substantial body of evidence can be presented, and I am compelled now to come out into the open with my record of failures, and plead for mercy on the perhaps inadequate ground that I have done my best.

What the connexion was between Johnson and John Hoyer, of Coventry, who was asked to inquire into the affairs of his fellow-townsman, their Cousin Tom; or between Johnson and the Miss Colliers, of Ashburne, whose cause he took up so generously, I must now regretfully leave it to others to discover, in the hope that the evidence I marshal relative to each of these problems will help someone towards an ultimate solution. Whether Katherine, the wife of Dr. Gerard Skrymsher, was really the sister of Michael Johnson (which involves the question of Johnsons connexion with Thomas Boothby, the great foxhunter), I am no nearer proving directly than I was over thirty years ago, though the inferential evidence points just as conclusively to it now as then. A number of failures in connexion with smaller problems concerning Johnson's family are also recorded here, but they are more irritating to the genealogist anxious to leave no loose ends than of any real importance.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331902908
• ISBN 13: 9781331902904
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296