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The volume of my History, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a first session, was now ready for the press. After the perilous adventure had been declined by my friend Mr. Elmsly, I agreed, upon easy terms, with Mr. Thomas Cadell, a respectable bookseller, and Mr.
Forster's Essays, ii. 400, 435. Strahan showed greater sagacity about Gibbon's Decline and Fall, which had been declined by Elmsly. Strahan. Carrick called Strahan 'rather an obtuse man. Post, April 9 1778. See post, Sept. 19, 1777, and April 20, 1781. Johnson, I believe, at this time suffered less than usual from despondency. See ante, iii. 25, note 1.
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