This sketch was taken in February preceding his decease when he was reading without spectacles at the sale of the ubrary or' Dr S Johnson

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MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; OF THE
ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY AT ATHENS, GREECE ; OF THE MASSACHU-
SETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY; THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCI-
ETY ; THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY; AND CORRES-

PONDING MEMBER OF THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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