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How did Joseph Addison and Richard Steele first become friends?
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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison, oil painting by Michael Dahl, 1719; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele first became friends while they were both students at the Charterhouse school in London. This meeting initiated a lifelong and highly productive literary partnership that lasted until shortly before Addison's death in 1719.12