During the interview, his father was "very full of the merits of his son, and told the company he was a good scholar, and a poet, and wrote Latin verses", which caused Johnson significant embarrassment.
أثناء المقابلة كان والده " زاخماً جداً بمزايا ابنه وأخبر المجموعة أنه كان باحثاً جيداً، وشاعراً، وكتب أشعاراً لاتينية "، مما سبب لجونسون إحراج كبير.