Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1911 — Where Johnson Wrote Rasseias. [ARTICLE]

Where Johnson Wrote Rasseias.

Staple Inn, London, Bing., where an alarming crack has appeared in the brick work of the outer court, seems so called because originally a hostelry of the merchants of the wool staple, and has for arms a woolsack. It has been an inn of chancery since the reign of Henry V., and in the spacious days of Queen Bess had 146 students during term and 69 out of term, a larger number than any other house of chancery. The much-admired Holbein front, one of the oldest existing specimens of oar street architecture, dates from the time of James I. Dr. Johnson removed hither on the breakin# up of his establishment in Gough square, and wrote from here to tell Miss Porter that be was “going to publish a little story book." This was “Rasselas," which he wrote “in the evenings of one wick" to defray the expenses of his mother’s funeral. In the present garden behind the inn are two small service trees, said to have been planted about that period.