Manuscript letter to his servant Mrs White, Bolt Court, Fleet Street

Item author: Samuel Johnson
Item date: 1784
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,200
Item date acquired: 1990
Item institution: Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire

Written five weeks before his death, Johnson writes to instruct Mrs White to wait on Strahan and collect three guineas for herself, Betsey Barber and Mrs Desmoulins. This is the only known letter to Mrs White, few Johnson letters to servants survive