200 on Dr Yobnson. Yune 13. 
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MISS SEWARD TO DR BOSWELL, 
ON THE SUBJECT OF BR JOHNSON, 
. For the Bee. 
The following dialogue was obligingly communicated to the Editor, by a 
gentleman of first eminence in the literary world, with an afsurance 
of his having many reasons to be satisfied that it is a genuine perfor- 
‘ snance of the lady whose name it bears. Mr Boswell has given amuch 
. lefs interesting or characteristic account of this dialogue in the second 
volume of his life of Johnson, p. 231. 
You afk me for the minutes I once made of acer- 
tain conversation which pafsed at Mr Dilly’s in a 
literary party ; and in which Dr Johnson and Mrs 
Knowles disputed so warmly? As you seem to have 
an idea of inserting this dispute in your future me- 
ditated work, the life of Dr Johnson, it is necefsary 
that something fhould be known concerning the young 
person who was the subject of it. 
Mifs Jenny Harry was, for fhe is now no more, 
the daughter of a rich planter in the West Indies, 
‘who sent her to England to receive her education, at 
the house of his friend Mr »where an inge- 
nious quaker lady, Mrs Knowles, was frequently a 
visitor. This gentleman affected wit, and was 
perpetually rallying Mrs Knowles on the subject 
of her quaker principles, in the presence of this 
young, gentle, and ingenuous Mifs Harry, who, at the 
age of eighteen, had received what is called a proper 
and polite education, without having been much in- 
structed in the nature and grounds of her religious 
belief. Mrs Knowles was often led into a serious 
dlefence of her devotional opinions, upon those visits 
