Who is credited with ending the system of patronage with his 'Letter to Lord Chesterfield'?
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Correct answer: B. Samuel Johnson
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In his letter of 7 February 1755, Johnson rebuffed Chesterfield's belated praise of the Dictionary: a patron is 'one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help'. It is taken as the symbolic end of literary patronage.
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