In 1745, William Falconer, author of the Shipwreck, who was serving on board the same ship with as campbell, became his servant and received some educational help from him.
About 1760, being on a long voyage, Campbell read the Ramblers and, staying shortly thereafter at Pensacola, wrote his Lexiphanes and Sale of Authors.
In the Sale of Authors, the "sweetly plaintive Gray" was put up to auction, with Whitefield, Hervey, Sterne, Hoyle, etc.
Lexiphanes itself found an imitator in 1770 in George Colman, who used that signature to a philological squib, and a fourth edition of the real work, which still anonymous, was issued at Dublin in 1774.
The History of the Man alter God’s own Heart, issued anonymously in 1761, generally attributed to Peter Annet, is asserted to have been written by Archibald Campbell, and this view has been adopted in the 1883 edition of Halkett and Laing’s Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature , ii.