In 1782, between bouts of illness, Johnson interested himself in a legal dispute involving some people with Lichfield ties, including a woman born Mary Dunn, whom he called a “cousin.”1 She first married Thomas Collier and had with him six children, only two of whom—Mary and Sophia— survived childhood. After her husband’s death, she married Thomas Flint, who served as a secretary and handyman for John Taylor, the minister from Ashbourne for whom Johnson wrote the majority of his extant sermons. Mary Flint had two children with her second husband before she died in 1776. He remarried in 1783. As that marriage was impending, his step-daughters attempted legally to claim money left to their parents in their grandfather’s will, and in this attempt they sought Johnson’s help. Johnson’s involvement in the case is mainly witnessed in his letters,2 but he also drew up a general statement of the case in late 1782 or early 1783. The statement asks questions about the will but also indicates that a version of the will and an abstract had been enclosed. It may be, as Reade suggests, that Johnson never saw a proper copy of the will, but only a superseded version and an abstract supplied by the daughters. Despite A. L. Reade’s exhaustive research, the outcome of the case is unknown, as is the exact relationship between Johnson and his so-called cousin. We present herewith a transcript of the manuscript, which is now in the Hyde Collection (MS Hyde 50 [12]).