[90] Letter to Mr. Temple.
[91] Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. London: 1785.
[92] Boswell called on Sir John Hawkins, and complained of being slighted in his book. “I know what you mean,” said Sir John; “you would have had me to say that Johnson undertook this tour with the Boswell.” Miss Hawkins’ Johnsoniana.
[93] Malone’s Edition of Shakspere, in ten volumes, was published in 1790.
[94] Lord Chancellor Thurlow.
[95] Boswell’s Life of Johnson, edited by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker and others, London, 1848, 12mo., vol. x., pp. 209-220.
[96] “Sermons, in two volumes, by John Dun, V.D.M. Kilmarnock, 1790,” 8vo.
[97] John Courtenay, Esq., was born in Ireland in 1741, and died in 1816. He composed the “Poetical Review of Dr. Johnson” and other works. He was, when Boswell knew him, Surveyor of the Ordnance and M.P. for Tamworth. He was a warm friend and pleasant companion.
[98] See “Life of William Wilberforce,” Lond., 1838. Vol. iii., pp. 63, 70.
[99] From the Commissariat Register of Glasgow, preserved in the General Register House, Edinburgh, vol. 74, p. 194.