 Johnson visited Chesterfield but, according to Johnson's account, he was kept waiting for a long time and was treated dismissively by Chesterfield when they eventually met.Chesterfield sent Johnson £10 but offered no greater support to Johnson through the seven further years it took him to compile the "Dictionary".A degree of genteel mutual antipathy thereafter existed between the two men, Chesterfield regarding Johnson as a "respectable
Hottentot, who throws his meat anywhere but down his throat" and as "uncouth in manners".