_Cibber's Lives of the Poets_ (Vol. v., p. 161.; Vol. vii., p. 113.).--MR.
W. L. NICHOLS has transmitted to "N. & Q." what he calls a "curious letter
which appears to have escaped the notice of MR. CROKER, though it
corroborates his statement," relative to Dr. Johnson's mistake as to the
authorship of those _Lives_. MR. NICHOLS is informed that he will find this
"curious letter" _in extenso_ in Mr. Croker's last edition of _Boswell_, p.
504., with the date of 1846; the letter itself having been published in
1843. It is again referred to in p. 818. as decisive of the question.