Received October 11, 1763, the contents, of Mr. Newbery. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [This is in Goldsmith's hand in the Newbery MSS. It appears to be a summary account, including some items for which separate receipts had been given. It was accompanied by the following "promise to pay," bearing the same date, and the two documents, taken together, seem to show that both the £63 and the £48 1s. 6d. were due to Newbery upon an account of £111 1s. 6d. previously lent.-ED.] TO MR. NEWBERY. I promise to pay Mr. John Newbery or order fortyeight pounds one shilling and sixpence on demand, for value received. October 11, 1763. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. TO MR. NEWBERY. Oct. 11th, 1763.-Received of Mr. John Newbery twenty-one pounds for translating the Life of Christ and the Lives of the Fathers. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1 Several of these works cannot be traced now. Prior thought the item Critical and Monthly" indicated either contributions to the 'Christian's Magazine' (then or soon after edited by the unfortunate Dr. Dodd), or criticisms of works belonging to Newbery which Goldsmith found means of getting inserted in the two reviews, the 'Critical' and the Monthly.' The Life of Christ' and 'Lives of the Fathers' were translations, as will be seen by a subsequent receipt.-ED. TO MR. NEWBERY. Received from Mr. Newbery twenty-five guineas, for which I promise to account. December 17, 1763. £26.5.0 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [Prior says there is a tradition that this loan was wanted by Goldsmith for a trip to Yorkshire, which, as the story goes, led to an incident that suggested to the author the idea of writing the Vicar of Wakefield.' If this is true, what a magnificent fulfilment of the "promise to account" was the Vicar! See, however, ante, pp. 66, 237, and also the 'History of Miss Stanton,' in vol. iv., and Prior's Life of Goldsmith,' vol. i., p. 485.-ED.] 6 TO MR. NEWBERY. Oct. 11th, 1763.-Received of Mr. John Newbery, three guineas for a Preface to the History of the World. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [This, from other of the Newbery accounts, seems to have been an additional payment. This Preface will be found in our vol. iv.-ED.] TO MR. NEWBERY. Oct. 11th, 1763.-Received of Mr. John Newbery twenty-one pounds, which with what I received before is in full for the copy of the History of England in a series of Letters, two volumes in 12mo. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [This History was that addressed " by a nobleman to his son," which proved so successful because it was attributed to Chesterfield, Lyttelton, and other noblemen: see our Life of Goldsmith,' p. 21.—ED.] TO MR. DODSLEY. Received of Mr. Dodsley, ten guineas, for an Oratorio, which he and Mr. Newbery are to share. Oct. 31st, 1764. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [The Oratorio was The Captivity: 'see' Poems,' p. 61.-ED.] TO MR. NEWBERY. Received from Mr. John Newbery eleven guineas, which I promise to pay. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Jan. 8, 1766. MR. NEWBERY, DR.1 6 6 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1 In Goldsmith's hand: first printed in Prior's Life,' vol. ii., p. 123. "Brookes's 4 vols. correcting," no doubt refers to the Natural History, for which Goldsmith wrote the Introductions and Preface (see p. 480, ante). The word "correcting," and the amount, seem to indicate that our author corrected Brookes's text, otherwise, touched up Brookes's compilation generally. The Natural Philosophy' was no doubt the Experimental Philosophy' of which we publish the Preface in our vol. iv. The Traveller' is, of course, Goldsmith's first poem. The price here, £21, has been looked upon as possibly the entire sum paid to the author for this poem. There is no proof to the contrary; but we may point out that the date of the above account, " June 7, 1766," is so far from the date of the first publication of the Traveller,' Dec., 1764, as to make it possible that this £21 was an additional payment. By June, 1776, the Traveller' was in its fourth edition.-ED. TO MR. NEWBERY. Received from Mr. Newbery five guineas for writing a short English Grammar. December 28, 1766. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Feb. 29th, 1769. MEMORANDUM. It is this day agreed, between Dr. Goldsmith, of Brick Court, in the Temple, and William Griffin, of Catherine Street in the Strand, as follows, that is to say Dr. Goldsmith agrees to write a new Natural History of Animals, &c., to be comprised in eight volumes, octavo, each volume to contain from twenty-five, to twenty seven sheets of pica print, for which Mr. Griffin agrees to pay Dr. Goldsmith eight hundred guineas in the following manner, viz., one hundred guineas upon the delivery of each volume of the copy, in manuscript; and Dr. Goldsmith, in consideration of the one hundred guineas per volume, hereby agrees to make over all his right, and title, to, and in, the copy of the said Natural History, to William Griffin, for ever, and to execute an assignment of the said copy on demand. It is understood by both parties that Dr. Goldsmith is to set about the work immediately, and to finish the whole as soon as he conveniently can. To the above agreement both parties have set their names. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. If the work makes less than eight volumes the Doctor is to be paid in proportion. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [This was the original agreement for the 'Animated Nature.' Before the work was completed Griffin sold his interest to Nourse. See ante, p. 473, and the 'Animated Nature' Preface and Extracts in vol. iv.— ED.] MEMORANDUM. Russel-street, Covent Garden. Ir is agreed between Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. on the one hand, and Thomas Davies, bookseller, of Russel-street, Covent Garden, on the other, that Oliver Goldsmith shall write for Thomas Davies an History of England, from the birth of the British empire to the death of George the Second, in four volumes octavo, of the size and the letter of the Roman History, written by Oliver Goldsmith. The said History of England shall be written and compiled in the space of two years from the date hereof. And when the said History is written and delivered in manuscript, the printer giving his opinion that the quantity above mentioned is completed, that then Oliver Goldsmith shall be paid by Thomas Davies the sum of five hundred pounds sterling, for having written and compiled the same. It is agreed also, that Oliver Goldsmith shall print his name to the said work. In witness thereof, we have set our names this thirteenth of June, 1769. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. TO MR. WILLIAM GRIFFIN. Received, September 26th, 1769, of William Griffin, the sum of five hundred guineas for the copyright of the first five volumes of my Natural History, as by agreement; and for which I promise an assignment on demand. No. 2, Brick Court, Temple. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [Prior had this from the collection of Mr. Upcott.-ED.] MEMORANDUM. September 15, 1770. It is agreed between Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. and Thomas Davies, of Covent Garden, bookseller, that Oliver Goldsmith shall abridge for Thomas Davies the book entitled Goldsmith's Roman History, in two volumes 8vo into one |