(on bottom of page)

“Memorandum Thursday 13th Nov. 1890
Just after midnight. Farrar Ranson.

When it pleases Almighty God to call my spirit
from this earth, and when I have been permitted
humbly to thank my Redeemer for saving my soul
and that of my darling wife: if He allows, and they
allow: I should like to converse long with

Enoch
*S. John the Evangelist
Timothy
Milton
Chaucer
Gray
*Johnson
Boswell
Hogarth
*Crabbe
Cowper
*Charles Lamb
Nelson
Wellington
*Anthony Trollope

for I know that
in that land
a little man
may consort
with great
men, without
appearance of
presumption

*most of all”

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D by James Boswell Esq.

Found by Andrew Pearson who says:

“I can’t remember when I bought this book. It was perhaps at Jermy &
Westerman’s in Nottingham, around 1978. Or maybe not. Almost all of
the pictures which Farrar Ranson found and pasted into the book are
still there, you can see two of them in the scan of the title page
(they are stuck in with stamp edging, those victorian stamps had good
glue on them).”