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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.
