Parr answered Boswell in the March number of the Gent.

Private papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle.

See ante, iii. 160, for a visit paid by Johnson and Boswell to Kedleston in 1777.

I expect you will let me know what he will write you in return, and we here beg to make offer to you and Mrs. Boswell of our most respectful compliments.

The subject which specially interested Boswell at this time was the fate of the unlucky Dr. Dodd, hanged for forgery in the previous June.

Johnson wrote to Boswell for a copy of Johnston's Poems (ante, iii. 104) and for his likeness (ante, March 18, 1784).

He wrote to Boswell on Nov. 16, 1776 (ante, iii.

It was on May 2, 1778, that Johnson attacked Boswell with such rudeness that he kept away from him for a week.

When questioned by Boswell as to the truth of a report that they had obtained for him an addition to his pension of 200l.

Macdonald is represented as seizing Boswell by the throat and pointing with his stick to the Journal that lies open at pages 168, 169.

Meres was plainly a man of muddled and inaccurate learning, of no judgment, and of no critical power, a sort of Elizabethan Boswell without Boswell's virtues, and it is no paradox to say that it is this which gives his Discourse its chief interest.

asked Lord Stowell in what estimation he found Boswell amongst his countrymen.

[1088] For the alarm he gave to Mrs. Boswell before this supper, see ib.

[140] Malone, in a note on the Life of Boswell under 1749, says that 'this lady was not the celebrated Lady Vane, whose memoirs were given to the public by Dr. Smollett

Yet he seriously discussed the truth of second-sight; he carefully investigated the Cock-lane ghosta goblin who anticipated some of the modern phenomena of so-called "spiritualism," and with almost equal absurdity; he told stories to Boswell about a "shadowy being" which had once been seen by Cave, and declared that he had once heard his mother call "Sam" when he was at Oxford and she at Lichfield.