[2:] The quotation is from a letter, quoted before in these pages, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1795; it is clearly written by one of Boswell's friends, and the signature 'C.' suggests Courtenay. Dr. Rogers accepts it as by him.

[3:] Quoted in Dr. Rogers's Memoir with reference to Traditions of Edinburgh, 1869, p. 74. I have not verified.

[4:] Records of my Life, by John Taylor, Esq., 1832, i, 214.

[5:] Nichols' Literary History, vii, 303-13.

[6:] Gentleman's Magazine, June, 1795.

[7:] Life of Reynolds, ii, 636.

[8:] Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, iii, 192.

[9:] See Nichols' Literary History, v, 456-7.

[10:] Letters to Temple, p. 272.

[11:] James Boswell, by W. K. Leask, p. 155.