Burney, Fanny. Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney
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Place: Streatham, July 5. --

   I have hardly had any power to write, my dear Susy, since I left you, for my cold has increased so much that I have hardly been able to do anything.

   Mr. Thrale, I think, is better, and he was cheerful all the ride. Mrs. Thrale made as much of me as if the two days had been two months.

   I was heartily glad to see Dr. Johnson, and I believe he was not sorry to see me: he had inquired very much after me, and very particularly of Mrs. Thrale whether she loved me as well as she used to do.

   He is better in health than I have ever seen him before; his journey has been very serviceable to him, and he has taken a very good resolution to reform his diet; -- so has my daddy Crisp. I wish I could


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pit them one against the other, and see the effect of their emulation.

   I wished twenty times to have transmitted to paper the conversation of the evening, for Dr. Johnson was as brilliant as I have ever known him -- and that's saying something; -- but I was not very well, and could only attend to him for present entertainment.