Boswell the Biographer

by George Mallory

[1:] Life of Reynolds, ii, p. 12.

[2:] Letters of Horace Walpole, v, p. 85.

[3:] Memoirs of Hannah More, i, p. 213.

[4:] The evidence for what is stated in this sentence and the next is discussed later under Boswell's biographical qualities.

[5:] London Magazine, xlvii, 106.

[6:] Piozzi Letters, i, 198.

[7:] Campbell's Diary, p. 70.

[8:] Life of Johnson, iv, pp. 378-80.

[9:] It must be remembered that Boswell spent nearly two months with Johnson in this last year. In March he wrote to Dr. Percy about going to London, 'chiefly to attend upon Dr. Johnson with respectful attention.' (Nichols, Literary History, vii, p. 302.)

[10:] Life of Johnson, iv, p. 339.