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NOTE1850

"JUNIUS IDENTIFIED."

By JOHN TAYLOR. (30. Upper Gower Street)

It is fortunate for my reputation that I am still living to vindicate my title to the authorship of my own book, which seems otherwise in danger of being taken from me. I can assure your correspondent R.J. (Vol. ii., p. 103.) that I was not only "literally *the writer*," (as he kindly suggests, with a view of saving my credit for having put my name to the book), but in its fullest sense *the author of "Junius Identified"*; and that I never received the slightest assistance from Mr. Dubois, or any other person, either in collecting or arranging the evidence, or in the composition and correction…

Topics: Authorship, Literature, Historical Attribution