JOHNSON SAMUEL Autograph Letter Signed Sam Johnson to Hester

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CONCERNED FOR HEALTH OF HIS FRIEND: HENRY THRALE JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Autograph Letter Signed, "Sam: Johnson," to Hester Lynch Thrale ("Dear Madam"), expressing satisfaction that Dr. Heberden is attending to Mr. Thrale, hoping his treatment is successful, noting that he will go to Lichfield and then to Streatham, and comparing favorably Mr. Thrale's chances of full recovery to older acquaintances stricken with palsy. 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; closing and signature crossed out in contemporary ink but quite legible, chipping to left edge, remnants of prior mounting at points along right edge verso. Ashbourne, 17 June 1779

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". . . I am glad that you have Heberden; and hope his restoratives and his preservatives will both be effectual. In the preservatives, dear Mr. Thrale must concur; yet what can he reform? or what can he add to his regularity and temperance? He can only sleep less. . . .
"Both Mrs. Aston and Dr. Taylor have had strokes of the palsy. The lady was sixty-eight, and at that age has gained ground upon it; the doctor is, you know, not young, and he is quite well, only suspicious of every sensation in the peccant arm. I hope my dear Master's case is yet slighter, and that, as his age is less, his recovery will be more perfect. Let him keep his thoughts diverted and his mind easy."
Published in Letters of Samuel Johnson, Hyde Edition, vol. III.