The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell

  III Letters written to Johnson

  By Dr Birch 155; by J.B., see Boswell III; by Mrs Boswell 853; by Sir A. Dick 574–5; by Dr Dodd 599–600, 602; by Mrs Thrale 752; by Lord Thurlow 763.

  IV Writings (including diaries, journals and projected works, but

  excluding epistolary letters) and matters relating to them

  Specific works are entered in the Index of Works and Literary Characters under their titles.

  adversaria 114; advertisements 12, 14; Annales 46; see also diaries; biography, excellence in 19, 139; Biographia Britannica, asked to edit 791; catalogue of his prose works 10–17; complete list asked for by his friends 66, 697; his own imperfect list, Historia Studiorum 697; one supplied to J.B. by Percy 697; charade 871; college and school exercises 32, 39, 40, 44, 935; composition: general 268, 322, 446, 884, 969; in Debates 994; in Life of Savage 96; in Rambler 113, 540; in Rasselas 182; in translation from the French 834; in Vanity of Human Wishes 108, 268; never wrote fair copies 782, 935; rapidity 62, 446, 881; shown in college exercises 40, 44; wrote not for pleasure 884; dedications: skill in writing 262, 379–80; written by him 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 53, 92, 139, 188, 195, 196, 204, 262, 276, 286, 581; diaries: Annales 46; Diary, burnt 19, 137, 992; fragments preserved 20, 46, 139; quoted by J.B. 44, 46, 50, 256, 276, 285–6, 336, 416, 917; seen by J.B. 992; ‘a small duodecimo volume’ owned by J.B. 114; diary of his tour to France 469–78; see also journal; Index of Works and Literary Characters: Prayers and Meditations; dictionary-making, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Dictionary of the English Language; election addresses 16, 752, 762; epitaphs: Essay on Epitaphs 11, 85, 179; wholly or partly composed by him 562–3, 768, 793, 957, 984; fable, sketch of one 383; Greek Anthology, translates from 979; Greek epigrams 72, 82; introductions, see prefaces; journal: attempts to keep a 375; specimens of 164, 261; see also diaries; Latin poems 40, 67, 291, 336, 421; Latin versions of English poems 40, 91; Latin versions of Greek epigrams 979; poemata, ed. Langton, see Others: Langton, Bennet; law arguments dictated to J.B. 15, 16, 357–9, 363–7, 389–92, 460, 461, 548–51, 632–3, 805, 835–6; letter to General Advertiser 12, 126; to Gentleman’s Magazine 95; payments received (chronological): for translation of Lobo’s Abyssinia, five guineas 51; for London, ten guineas 73; translation of Sarpi, £49 78; part payment for Historical Account of Parliament, two guineas a sheet 90; for correction of Boulter’s Monument, ten guineas 171; for Dictionary, £1, 575 (out of which payments to amanuenses were made) 104, 165; for introduction to London Chronicle, one guinea 171; for Rasselas, £100 + £25 for the second edition 182; for Lives of the Poets, 200 guineas originally agreed on 580, 781; £100 added 781; poetry: juvenile poems 32, 54; made verses and forgot them 268; pleasure in writing poetry 884; political writing 15, 16, 199, 414, 431–2; see also election addresses; postscript by him 12, 127–8; prefaces: skill in writing 81; prefaces, introductions, or preliminary addresses written by him, wholly or in part 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 81, 86, 88, 89, 100, 108, 127–8, 166, 171, 185, 188–9, 191–2, 196, 276, 369, 417, 446, 868; projected works: account of Parliament 88; a Bibliothèque 154–5; edition of Cowley 533; life of Alfred 101; life of Bacon 628; life of Cromwell 892; history of British Arms 189; on fictions 892; on Italy 529; translation of the Lusiad 901; prologues by him 103, 110–11, 126, 285, 287, 581–2, 776; proposals written by him 12, 16, 53, 100, 171–2, 417, 530, 577; reply to an attack 14; reviews by him 13, 14, 15, 166–9, 218, 253; one by Murphy ascribed to him 167; revision of his writings 331; school exercises, see college and school exercises; sermons: asked to write a funeral sermon 324; composed by him 17, 132, 598, 621; style: account of it 121–5; ‘Brownism’ 123, 166; caricatures of it 286, 456, 616, 981; compared with Addison’s 125; criticized by others 616, 789; criticizes it himself 616; defends it 616; dislikes Gallicisms/‘the former, the latter ‘/parentheses 868; formed on writers of seventeenth century 122; formed on Temple and Chambers 122; imitations of it 616, 796, 980, 981, 982, 983, 984; of the translation of Lobo 51; of the Plan of the Dictionary 105; of The Rambler 121; praised by Shenstone 505; raises his own colloquial style 940; translates for booksellers 77; words: added to the language 123; charged with using hard and big words 105, 625, 784; ‘familiarized terms of philosophy’ 121; needs words of large meaning 122, 616–17; works: booksellers’ edition by Hawkins and others 597, 942; complete edition intended by him 697; right to publish an edition reserved by him 109, 994; writings: abortive, lost or unidentified 10, 54, 79, 281, 291, 611; erroneously or doubtfully ascribed to him 82, 103, 167.

  BOSWELL

  Principal Events of His Life

  1759 Keeps an exact journal 229

  Enters Glasgow University 245

  1760 First visit to London 204

  1762 Second visit to London 205

  1763 Gets to know Johnson 204, 208

  Studies at Utrecht 248

  1764-5 Travels in Germany, Switzerland and Italy 230, 374

  1765 Visits Corsica 262

  1766Visits Paris 262

  Returns from abroad 263

  Visits London 263–8

  Publishes ‘Thesis in Civil Law’, Disputatio Juridica, and admitted as an advocate 271

  1767Acquainted with men of eminence 267

  Publishes Essence of the Douglas Cause 382

  Purchases Dalblair 634

  1768 Publishes An Account of Corsica 287

  Visits London and Oxford 287–96

  1769Visits Ireland 343

  Visits London 297–318

  First visit to Streatham 301

  Attends the Stratford Jubilee 297

  Marriage 334

  1770–71 Gap in his correspondence with Johnson of nearly a year and a half 334

  1772 Visits London 338–67

  1773 Visits London 372–401

  Elected a member of the Club 385, 387

  Gets to know Burke 387

  Tour to the Hebrides with Johnson 403

  1775 Visits London 429–63

  Johnson assigns him a room in his house 462

  Visits Wilton and Mamhead 460

  Birth of his eldest son Alexander 467

  1776 Disagrees with his father about the settlement of his estate 483

  Visits London 493–8, 521–61

  Becomes Paoli’s constant guest when in London 536

  Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield and Ashbourne with Johnson 493, 498–521

  Visits Bath and Bristol with Johnson 541–4

  Introduces Wilkes to Johnson 552

  Interview with Hume on his deathbed

  Birth of second son, David 570

  1777Death of David 577

  Meets Johnson at Ashbourne 595–635

  1778 Visits London 644–717

  Visits Thorpe, Yorkshire 717

  Birth of third son, James 721

  1779Visits London (16 March-4 May) 725–36

  Visits Leeds with Colonel James Stuart 738, 745

  Visits London (October) 739–45

  Visits Lichfield, Chester, Carlisle, Liverpool and Warrington 745–8

  1781 Visits London 803–28

  Visits Southill with Johnson 828–37

  1782 Death of his father 851

  1783 Visits London 855–87

  Visits Burke at Beaconsfield 879

  Finishes The Hypochondriack

  Publishes A Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation 905

  1784 Stops at York on his way to London 909

  Hurries back to Ayrshire with the intention of becoming a candidate for Parliament 909

  Visits London 913–50

  Visits Oxford with Johnson 920–36

  Sees Johnson for the last time 950

  Death of Johnson 998

  1791Publishes his Life (16 May) 6

  1792Death of Reynolds 7

  1793Publishes second edition of the Life 8

  Publishes Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition 7 1795 Death (19 May) 9

  I Anonymous or
General Descriptions of Himself

  Descriptions: ‘a country gentleman’ 620; ‘a gentleman’ (chronological): who seemed fond of curious speculation 290; who was afraid of the superior talents of a lady he wished to marry 292; who argued that drinking drove away care 362; who had bought a suit of laces for his wife 450; who argued that Charles II would have done no harm, etc. 459; who wished to live in New Zealand 543; who irritated S.J. by asking questions 547, 668, 861; who argued that in certain circumstances a husband might do as he pleased 743; ‘a man’ (chronological): who was forward in making himself known 504; who had been guilty of vicious actions 533; who had resolved to test friendship by borrowing 652; ‘one of the company’ (chronological): who thought the concluding lines of the Dunciad too fine 304; whose head was described by S.J. as his ‘peccant part’ 311; who attempted to rally S.J. 439; ‘one of S.J.’s friends’ (chronological): who argued in favour of a country life 362; who went tipsy to dine with him 498; ‘a young gentleman’ who teased S.J. with his servant’s infidelity 267; ‘a young man’ who was troubled by his lack of knowledge 238.

  In the following references J.B. probably, but not certainly, describes himself: ‘a friend’ who asked S.J. what he thought of a tanti man 825; ‘a gentleman’: who introduced his brother to S.J. 773; who provoked S.J. by quoting him against himself 915; who thought Walpole incapable of writing the Heroic Epistle 938; ‘someone’ who wickedly tried to rouse S.J. 305.

  II Life, Character, Qualities, Opinions, etc.

  account: by S.J. 249, 403 n. a; of himself 204, 215; accuracy 5, 441, 449, 568, 636, 684 n. a, 764, 810, 952, 973, 986; advocate, admitted as an 271; for cases in which he acted as counsel, see counsel; affection of distress 803, 974; Alnwick, visits 335; America, ignorance of 419; Americans, sides with the 420, 430, 634, 643, 693, 809, 905; ancestry 483, 619, 872; an antiquary 747 n. a; anxiety for the safety of his family 521; apprehensions of unhappiness 247; his archives 670 n. a; and the army, see military ambitions; Ashbourne, visits 590, 592, 595–635; Auchinleck, describes 243, 620; authenticity, love of, see accuracy; avidity for delight 747; bar, enters the, see English bar; Bath, visits 541; belief in Christianity or Providence 211, 215, 432; birth, love of high, see gentility; birthday 297 n. c; on bishops 805–6; boastful 870; books, slight knowledge of 454; ‘Bozzy’ 398; Bristol, visits 543; bustle, makes a 725; cards, gambles at 727; Carlisle, suggests meeting S.J. at 577, 584–5, 587, 590; cats, antipathy to 872; cowardly caution 636–7; celebrated men, acquaintance with 267, 552; changefulness, wretched 627; character, see account; ‘intellectual chemistry’ 552; Chester, visits 746–8; his children 402, 411, 467, 721; blessed by a non-juring bishop 725; guardians to 739; loved by S.J. 759; church, fondness for going to, see piety; a citizen of the world 426; classical learning, see quotations; the Club: elected 387; member of 252; proposed by S.J. 385; S.J.’s Charge 387; for his reports of conversations at and meetings of, see Index of Subjects: Club, the; ‘clubable’ 903 n. a; thinks a convict unjustly condemned 414 n. a; and Corsica, see Index of Places: Corsica; counsel: in ecclesiastical censure case 547–8; before the House of Commons 645, 805; before the House of Lords 337, 642; Sir Allan Maclean’s case 573; prosecution of a schoolmaster 637; Society of Solicitors’ case 834; Vicious Intromission 364, 370; his ‘wise and noble curiosity’ 263, 293; Dalblair, buys the farm of 634; daughters, on the treatment of 489 n. a; his death 9; at times not afraid of 605; debts 408; paid by his father 569; S.J.’s warnings against incurring any 847–8, 849–50, 851, 855; delay inherent in him 573; describes visible objects with difficulty 624; Devonshire, visits 460; dignity, on preserving 297 n. c; dinner, goes without 354; dissatisfaction, given to 645; Douglas Cause, interest in the, see IV; Dresden, visits 144 n. a; drinking: a lover of wine 614, 655 n. a; nerves affected by port 230; S.J. advises moderation and abstinence 614, 910, 915; to excess: – at Miss Monckton’s 823; – at the Duke of Montrose’s 823; tries abstinence 498 n. 546, 701; vows of sobriety 498 0n. 546; ‘drudges in an obscure corner’, and the Dunciad 304; early rising, difficulty of 613; Easter worship in St Paul’s, see piety; English bar: discouraging prospects 620 n. a; discusses with S.J. the way to success at the bar 620, 935; enthusiasm: of mind 586 n. a; to go with Capt. Cook 523; to go to the ‘wall of China’ 668; feudal 620; Essex Head Club, member of 903 n. a; Eumelian Club, member of 985 n. a; exact likeness, draws an 255; executions, love of seeing 945; fame, ardour for literary 8, 297 n. c, 621, 790 n. a; fancy, his sprightly, see imagination; farm, purchases a, see Dalblair; father, see III; Others: Auchinleck, Lord; feelings, ardent 297; ‘fervour of loyalty’ 581; free will, love of discussing, see Index of Subjects: free will; a genealogist 670 n. a; gentility, love of 257–9, 438; ghosts, talks of 815 n. a; at Glasgow University 226, 245; Greek: has little 743; S.J. advises him to study 244; ‘an honest chronicler as Griffith’ 17; habitations, see houses; lodgings; at the Handel festival 919, 921; happiest days, one of his 816–17; the Hebrides, first talk of visiting 237, 417; houses: in James’s Court, Edinburgh 606; rents Dr Boswell’s house in the Meadows 583, 586, 590; see also lodgings; hypochondria: pride in it 566, 751; persuaded to throw it off 734; suffers from 490, 565–7, 639, 721, 734, 748, 749, 929 n. a,974-5; his ‘hypocrisy of misery’ 803; idleness 245; imaginary ills: fancies that he is neglected 466, 541, 595; – that his wife and children are ill 521; imagination 720; infidelity in his youth 215; intellectual excesses 748; intemperance, see drinking; Ireland, visits 343; isthmus, compares himself to an 302; Italy, visits 266, 290; Jacobitism when a boy 228 n. b; associations connected with it 724; Johnson’s Court, veneration for 382; kindness to tenants 855; knowledge: at the age of twenty-three 218; at twenty-five 265; lack of 238; see also Greek; Latin; learning; as a Laird 855; his Latin 40, 272, 273; law, study of 212, 226; lawyer: unwilling to become 212, 226; see also advocate; English bar; laxly, lives 744; a lay-patron 392; Liberty and Necessity, troubled by 803; Lichfield, visits 511, 560, 745; and the Literary Club, see Club, the; lodgings in London: (1763) Downing Street, Westminster 223, 231; Farrar’s Buildings, Inner Temple Lane 231; (1768) Half Moon Street, Piccadilly 293; (1769) Old Bond Street 304; (1772) Conduit Street 348; (1773) Piccadilly 376; General Paoli’s in South Audley Street 536, 698; see also houses; London: exalted spirits there 656–7; love of it 244, 408, 521, 619, 720; S.J. consulted about a visit to it 408–9; – advises him to take his wife to it 620; – gives advice about his removing to it 957; visits: (1760) 204; (1762-3) 205–45; (1766) 263–8; (1768) 287–96; (1769) 297–318; (1772) 338–67; (1773) 372–401; (1775) 429-63; (1776) 493–8, 519, 521–61; (1778) 644–717; (1779) 725–36, 739–45; (1781) 803–28; (1783) 855–87; (1784) (sets out in March, but turns back at York 909) 913–50; his loose life 350, 533, 744; manners, want of 519; marriage: approaching 297, 298, 300, 317; takes place 334; masquerade, at a 369; mechanics, ignorance of 611; melancholia, see hypochondria; military ambitions and love of military life 212; ‘all mind’ 748; mind: ‘somewhat dark’ 464; talks of the state of his 900; ‘mingles virtue and vice’ 392; music, affected by 630; mystery and the mysterious, love of 645, 815 n. a; narrowness, occasionally troubled with 869; nature, no relish for 243; ‘old-hock humour’ 498 n. 546; Ossian, opinions on, see Others: Macpherson, James; ostentatious 245; Oxford, visits in: (1768) 287; (1776) 498–504; (1784) 921–36; Parliament, wishes to be in 884, 911; piety: Easter worship in St Paul’s 351, 374, 408–9, 454, 531, 694, 729, 814, 879; elevated by pious exercises 831; fondness for going to church 221 n. a, 621; love of consecrated ground 748, 749; on communicating 830–31; place or office, longs for a 848, 885; plays his part admirably 746; political character and opinions 167–8; Praeses, elected 899; pronunciation 345; quotations, his felicitous 17; reading: neglects 454; yearly reading of Rasselas 183; reserve, practises some 4; retirement to a desert, talks of 300; ridicule, defies 23, 626; Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence 296 n. b; rural beauties, little taste for 243; St Paul’s, Easter worship at, see piety; Scotland: finds it too narrow a sphere 619; forty years�
� absence from it suggested to him 532; his native country 290; Scots and Scottishness: ‘a Scotchman without the faults of a Scotchman’ 712; his Scotch accents 345, 576; his Scotch shoe-black 436; ‘one Scotchman who is cheerful’ 732; ‘scarce esteemed a Scot’ 124; unscottified 389; self-tormentor 247; Shakespeare, admiration of 692; at Shakespeare’s Jubilee 297; his shorthand 668–9; his long head equal to it 857; slavery, approves of 632, 633–4, 638; no Socrates 275; soldier, desires to be a, see military ambitions; sophist, plays the 732; studies, S.J.’s advice as to his 218, 227, 240, 242, 244, 249–50, 743; succession: preference for male 468 n. a, 484, 489 n. a; to the barony of Auchinleck 483–90; superstitious 129–30, 815 n. a, 914, 974–5; see also ghosts; mystery; Index of Subjects: second sight; sympathy, blames himself for lack of 308; a tanti man 825; tenderness, calls for 640; toleration, discusses 394–6; topics, has but two 547; his Toryism 581, 617 n. a; town, pleasure in seeing a new 610; tranquillity, desires 639; truthfulness, see accuracy; unobservant 936; Utrecht, goes to 212, 248; his vanity 8; vows: love of making 271, 275; of sobriety, see drinking; Walton’s writings, edified by 413; water-drinking, tries, see drinking; wine, love of, see drinking; at York 909, 911.

  III Relations and Correspondence with other Persons, and their Correspondence with, and Opinions of, Boswell

  Dr Adams, correspondence with 6, 973; Baretti, exposes 265; Beattie, correspondence with 339 n. a; Blair: correspondence with 740; witnesses agreement for his Sermons 571; Godfrey Bosville, correspondence with 761; Burke, friendship with 879; Dr Churton, correspondence with 929 n. a; Courtenay’s lines on him 123; Dr Cullen, correspondence with 908; Derrick in his London ‘tutor’ 239; Edward Dilly, correspondence with 579; Donaldson, praises 231; father: censures him for his second marriage 301; disagrees with him 570; – about heirs general and heirs male 483–4, 565; on better terms with him 263, 569, 570, 578, 637, 723, 763; S.J.’s advice about him 749; uneasy with him 226; see also Others: Auchinleck, Lord; lends Sir W. Forbes his journal 635; thinks Fox had no notion of immortality 453; Garrick: correspondence with 724; friendship with 145, 724; slyly introduces his fame 665; soothes him 302; Mrs Garrick, dines with 816; Gibbon, dislike of, see Others: Gibbon, Edward; Goldsmith: account of 218–21; dines him 304; mentions his foibles 219, 359, 398; takes leave of him 399; visits his lodgings 356; great or celebrated men, acquaintance with 267, 552, 625; has hopes: from Burke 885; from the Rockingham ministry 847; Lord Hailes, correspondence with 229; Warren Hastings, correspondence with 799; Hector: correspondence with 973; visits withS.J. 507–8, 510–11; see also Others: Hector, Edmund; Hume, interview with, on his deathbed 605; Johnson (Boswell’s opinions on): acquaintance with (chronological) – first meeting 208, 448; – calls on him for the first time 210; – entertains him for the first time 223–4; – dines for the first time at his house 374; – weekly meetings to be arranged 586 n. a; – need of a yearly meeting 585, 590, 630, 761; – under his roof for the last time 949; – last talk 949; – last farewell 950; awe, regrets losing some of his 645; breakfasts with 739; censures for inattention to Lord Marchmont 790; close connection with 428; constant respectful attention to 453; consulted about America by 418, 430; conversation, records – at first with difficulty 223; – with assiduity 19; – with less assiduity 298; – fails to record it 242, 824; collects his sayings into volumes 810; death of, viewed with dismay 576; diary, reads his 992; differs from in politics on two points only 643, 905; discusses him with Robertson and Reynolds at Ramsay’s 702–3; his ‘Guide, Philosopher and Friend’ 522, 831, 1000; hide his faults, does not 21, 671 n. b; his Journey, reads in one night 417; leads him to talk 360, 539; letters – kept back 584, 586; – keeps copies of those to him 262; – gaps in correspondence with 262, 285; – neglects to write to him 334, 736–7, 975; –proposes weekly correspondence 738; – to 262, 271, 273, 293, 315, 334, 335, 337, 368, 405, 410–11, 412–13, 417, 419, 420, 427, 464, 467, 480, 481, 489, 490, 565, 567, 568, 573, 575, 577–8, 583, 586 n. a, 589, 591, 592, 593, 636, 637, 639, 642–4, 673, 718, 724, 734, 737, 745, 747, 757, 760–62, 905, 974, 975; keeps away from, for a week, 706; love for, 244, 403, 576, 692, 761–2, 887, 949, 950; offends 290, 315, 634, 667, 693, 713; opens his mind to 215; at Oxford with 287; parting with, feelings on 401, 629; pension, advocates an addition to his 944–5, 948–50, 955–6; publishes without leave a letter from 287, 292; puts to the question 547, 667–8; teases 267; tries an experiment on his affection 736–8; veneration for 204, 267; visits (chronological) – Harwich with 244–5; – (invites to visit) Scotland, 289, 367, 383-4, 401; – Scotland and Hebrides with 403–4; – Oxford and the Midlands 493, 498; – Bath and Bristol 541–4; – Ashbourne 595–635; – Southill 828–37; – Oxford 920–36; Wilkes, brings him together with 552–61; wonders he has not more pleasure in writing 268; worships 702; not in will 989 n. a; Johnson (opinions on Boswell): advises him (chronological) – on his studies and conduct 242, 249–50; – on choosing guardians for his children 739; – on management of his household 851; – to stay at home and look after his wife 852; – on trying his fortune at the English bar 935; angry with him 693, 737; assigns him a room in his house 462, 575, 644; complains of the length of his letters 565 n. c; describes him as ‘worthy and religious’ 736; easier with him than with almost anybody 870; encourages him to turn author 217; gives him particulars of his early life 30–31; gives him Les Pensees de Pascal 728; keeps him up late drinking port 230, 729; ‘let us live double’ 822; letters – keeps his and directs them to be returned to him 262; – none from, for two years (1764-5) 262; – permits him to publish them after his death 293; – to him, see Johnson II; likens to a moth 247; love for him 215, 237, 244, 262, 298, 337, 369, 403, 453, 465, 481, 561, 565, 575, 587, 595, 630, 639, 640, 692, 719, 734, 747, 759, 761, 763, 803, 809 n. b, 856, 887, 949, 975; offended with him, and reconciled 315, 316; offers to write the history of his family 872; praises him as a travelling companion 237, 682; – gives him a thousand pounds in praise 729; recommends a lady client to him 410; reproves him 517; visits him when ill 734; witty at his expense 4, 360; Langton, correspondence with 753; Mickle: correspondence with 900; visits him at Wheatley 934; Monboddo, visits with S.J. 914 n. b; Mrs Montagu, quarrel with 799; mother-in-law, see stepmother; Lord Mountstuart: dedicates thesis to him, 272 n. b, 274; friendship with 834; puzzled by his indifference 878; Oglethorpe: gives him particulars of his life 449 n. b; introduces him to Shebbeare 825; Paoli, see Others: Paoli, Pasquale; Percy, correspondence with 45, 674; Pitt, correspondence with 907 n. a; Reynolds, correspondence with, see Others: Reynolds, Sir Joshua; Rousseau, visits 266, 374; Mrs Rudd, acquaintance with 561; Miss Seward: controversy with her 27 n. b, 55 n. a; meets 514, 677, 746; Adam Smith’s lectures, attends 226; his stepmother, on ill terms with 570; Colonel Stuart, see Others: Stuart, Lieutenant Colonel James; Temple, see Others: Temple, Revd William Johnson; Mrs Thrale, see Others: Thrale, Hester Lynch; Thurlow, correspondence with 944, 948; Voltaire, visits 230, 263; Vyse, correspondence with 589; welcome everywhere 747; John Wesley, introduced to, by S.J. 736; wife, in search of a 292 n. 254; see also Others: Boswell, Margaret; Wilkes, see Others: Wilkes, John; Miss Williams: his negotiation with her over the Wilkes dinner 554; her ‘love’ for him, 337; takes tea with 223, 244, 310; Zelide, see Others: Zuylen, Isabella de.