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Samuel Henley Letter to Mr. Johnson, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

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Biographical Information:

Samuel Henley was born in 1745 in England and was ordained in the Church of England. Henley was recruited to be Professor of Moral Philosophy at William and Mary (1770-1775). Henley returned to England in May 1775 because of the widening rift between England and Virginia. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Scope and Contents

Letter from Samuel Henley, St. Paul's [Courtyard]  to Mr. Johnson about a debt owed to Johnson and asks for latest [?] edition of Pitt's Virgil published by Dodsley.  Undated.

Related Material

UA 6.02  Samuel Henley Papers, 1772-1813

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Debt
• Pitt, Christopher, 1699-1748. Aeneid of Virgil