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A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson
''A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson'' was written by Thomas Tyers for ''The Gentleman's Magazines December 1784 issue. The work was written immediately after the death of Samuel Johnson and is the first postmortem biographical work on the author. The first full length biography was written by John Hawkins and titled ''Life of Samuel Johnson''.
==Background==
There is little known about the relationship that Johnson and Tyers shared, except that Johnson claimed that "Tyers always tells him something he did not know before"〔Hill 1897 p. 362〕 and was familiarly mentioned by Johnson to Johnson's friends.〔Boswell 1887 p. 308〕 However, Johnson, in ''The Idler'', described Tyers, called Tom Restless, as "a circumstance" and says:
"When Tom Restless rises he goes into a coffee-house, where he creeps so near to men whom he takes to be reasoners, as to hear their discourses and endeavours to remember something which, when it has been strained through Tom's head, is so near to nothing, that what it once was cannot be discovered. This he carries round from friend to friend through a circle of visits, till, hearing what each says upon the question, he becomes able at dinner to say a little himself; and as every great genius relaxes himself among his inferiors, meets with some who wonder how so young a man can talk so wisely."〔Hill 1897 p. 380〕
On 13 December 1784, Samuel Johnson died.〔Bate 1977 p. 600〕 In response to his death,〔Bate 1955 p. 147〕 the ''Gentleman's Magazine'' ran ''A Biographical Sketch of Dr Samuel Johnson'' for their December issue.〔Hill 1897 p. 335〕 The work was written in the short time between the death and the printing.〔Hill 1897 p. 366〕 Although it was the first biographical work on Johnson, the first full-length biography would be published by Murphy in 1787.〔Davis 1961 p. vii〕
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