The Trivia Situation, Part 39

Each day for the next few weeks I will be giving away a volume of the Harvard Classics from a complete set dating back to 1910. Here’s how it works. I’m going to ask a question relating to the volume in question. If you think you know that answer, email it to thewholefivefeet AT gmail DOT com. You will have until five o’clock Eastern time to respond. I will then randomly select the winner from among one of the correct answers, and that winner will get the book.

Here is today’s question on Volume 39: Prefaces and Prologues.  How did Dr. Johnson define the term “patron,” in his letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, which precedes his famous dictionary?

I will announce today’s winner on Monday, at the same time that I pose Monday’s question.