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Letter from James Boswell to Edmund Malone, 13th April 1795. Letter written from Great Portland Street, with reference to the monument to Dr Johnson in St Paul's Cathedral, protesting against the demand of Dr Samuel Parr that the inscription which he had composed should be adopted by the committee without any revision. From the fifth series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).