Reporting on Johnson’s visit to Percy in the summer of 1764 when he was, as he says in his diary, working on the dedication to his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Boswell suggested that he got help from Johnson, just as Reynolds, Boswell said, would later get help from Johnson on the dedication to his Discourses. Reynolds, however, obliged Boswell to cancel that passage in the Life, and in doing so Boswell also canceled the part about Percy’s indebtedness to Johnson. He replaced the passage with general remarks about Johnson’s assistance to his friends in writing or rewriting dedications, but the indexer, who apparently used uncanceled copy, listed the new passage under “Percy, Dr., his Reliques of English Poetry,” thus revealing his indebtedness to Johnson. Percy was evidently unhappy about this because, like Reynolds, he wished to be thought capable of writing his own dedication. In the event, Malone mollified Percy,1 who was not too proud to acknowledge in writing to Robert Anderson on 18 June 1800 that Johnson contributed the “finest strokes” in his original dedication to the Countess of Northumberland and that he rewrote the dedication for a later edition because he no longer wished “to strut in borrowed feathers.”2 Proof-sheets of the first edition of Percy’s Reliques now at the Houghton Library (MS Eng 893 [275]) show even more conclusively that Johnson contributed to Percy’s original dedication.3 The Countess of Northumberland was also the dedicatee of Lennox’s translation of the Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon and of the Last Age (1757), and it is possible that Johnson wrote or rewrote this dedication, too (see p. 204, n. 3 above). The performance for Percy, even if only the “finest strokes” are Johnson’s, is more energetic, however, and more worthy of inclusion in this volume than the dubiously attributed dedication to the same person for Lennox.