ADAM BROTHERS (JAMES, JOHN,

ROBERT, WILLIAM), 8.
Adam, Robert B., 231.

Adam, Robert B., Jr., owner of the
only known proof-sheets of the
Life, 230 ff.

Adams, Rev. William, 194, 228, 233.
Addison, Joseph, 252.

"Ameté, Mlle., the Turk." See
Emetulla.

Appian Way, the, 78, 79.
Arblay, Madame d' (Fanny Burney),
her Diary quoted, 34, 111, 187,
188, 217; her feeling about the
Life, 188, 189; mentioned, 149,

227.

Armstrong, Daniel, 80, 81.
Asquith, Herbert H., 214.
Asquith, Margot, 214.

Auchinleck, Lord, B.'s father, advo-
cate and judge, extent of his
estates, 7, 8; the Boswellian crest,
8; his relations with B., 20, 21, 96,
97, 98; his views of the purpose of
B's visit to Holland, 22, 23; B.'s
"management" of, 23 ff.; decides
to send B. to Utrecht, 30; and
Lord Keith, 42, 43; consents to
B.'s visit to Germany, 43, and
to the Italian tour, 46-48; was
good material for B.'s literary
purpose, 97, 98; his opinion of
B.'s associates, 98; refuses to
sanction B.'s addresses to Zélide,
155, 156; effect of his death on
B.'s position, 240; mentioned, 29,

30, 37, 127, 138, 139, 141, 150, 154.
Auchinleck estate, 7 ff.; the cabinet,

and its contents, 89, 90, 192; B.'s
debts a burden on, 240, 241; his
creditable record as Master of,
243 ff.

BARBER, FRANCIS, 228.

Barnard, Rev. Thomas, 194.
Beauclerk, Topham, 171, 194.
Belle Irlandaise, La. See Mary
Anne.

Benoit, M., L'Atlantide, 61, 62.
Berlin, 39, 44, 45.

Berlioz, Hector, 180.

Blair, Kate, "the Princess," B.'s
wooing of, 138 ff.; hears of B.'s
rash talk about her, 145; B.'s
rivals for her favour, 146, 150 ff.;
in Edinburgh, 146, 147; B.'s in-
terview with, detailed by B. in
letter to Temple, 147-149; rejects
B.'s suit, 152; B. again a suitor to,
159.

Blair, Mrs., 138, 139, 140, 145, 159.
Boswell, Alexander, of Auchinleck.
See Auchinleck, Lord.
Boswell, David, B.'s brother, letter
to, 10.

Boswell, Mrs. Euphemia, B.'s
mother, 7 and n., 82, 83.
BOSWELL, JAMES, his Ode to Tragedy,
and its dedication, 1, 3; his ambi-
tion to associate with the Great,
3-5, 6, 10, 11, 62, 119; his curious
sense of humour, 5; dedication of
his Cub at Newmarket, 5; his social
status, compared with Johnson's,
6; his origins, 7; though heir-ap-
parent to Auchinleck, longs for
London, 9; Auchinleck and Ulu-
bræ, 9, 10; first impressions of
London, 10; seeks association with
literary genius rather than rank
and riches, 11, 12; his early life,
11; first meeting with Hume, 11,
12; his judgment of Hume, 12, 13
and n.; escapes being a prig, 13;
his, disorderly education, 13, 14;

always "on the rove," 14; his re-
lations with Johnson a vindica-
tion of his ambition, 14, 15; the
distinctive feature in his character,
15; his unequalled naïveté, 15, 17;
inscription in his copy of The Gov-
ernment of the Tongue, 15; Mme.
du Deffand on, 17; his melan-
choly, 18, 19, 20, 25; his plans and
prospects described in letter to
Johnston, 20-22; relations with
his father, 20, 21, 96, 97; his “af-
fairs," 22, 24; his "boy," 22, 24,
25; his views for his foreign tour,
and his father's, 22, 23; how his
father is to be "managed," 23, 24;
his attainments in the law not
negligible, 27 f.; Dr. J. T. T.
Brown quoted on, 29.

Reasons for choice of Utrecht
for pursuing his studies, 29, 30;
family connections in Holland, 30,
37; his plans for study at Utrecht,
31; starts for Holland, 31, 32;
early days in Utrecht, 32; his
social activities there, 32 ff.; his
friends, 32-36; at The Hague, 37,
38; at Leyden, 38, 39; significance
of the character of the entries in
his Commonplace Book, 39, 40,
41; his indifference to architecture,
art, and scenery, 39, 40; Johnson's
influence, how far responsible, 39,
40; his pride in his record of anec-
dotes and bons mots, 41; his esti-
mate of conversation, 41, 42; de-
cides to leave Holland, 42;
through Lord Keith's influence,
his father consents to his visiting
Germany, 43; travels with Lord
Keith and "the Turkish lady,"
43, 44; contemplates making a
character sketch of Lord Keith,
44, 53; Lord Keith quoted on, 44;
in Berlin, 44-46; wearies of Ger-
man etiquette, 45; tries to "use"
A. Mitchell, to manage his father

with regard to the Italian tour,
46, 47; obtains his father's con-
sent, 47.

Discovery of his letters to Rous-
seau fills a gap in his biography,
48; at Val de Travers, 49; ap-
proaches Rousseau without other
recommendation than his own
social genius, 49, 50; his artful
letter, 50-52, and its success, 53;
his association with Rousseau de-
scribed, 53; his confidences, 53;
asks Rousseau's advice concerning
music, 54; as Ossian, 55; his near-
duel with a French officer, 55, 56;
tries to pump Rousseau as to his
views on duelling, 56, 57; his ap-
parent simplicity, 56, 57, 167;
tries to approach Rousseau
through Mlle. Le Vasseur, 57, 58;
obtains an interview with Vol-
taire at Ferney, 58-60; dreams of
reconciling Voltaire and Rousseau,
60, but succeeds in increasing the
ill-feeling between them by a
"ludicrous print," 60, 61; his
note-books of their conversation
not extant, 61; Walpole quoted
on, 62, 63.

Goes to Turin to meet Wilkes,
61, 73; had little in common with
Wilkes, 69; Wilkes's attraction
for him, 69, 70; his method of ap-
proach, 70, 76, 77; their early as-
sociation, 70, interrupted by his
European tour, 71; significance of
his first letter to Wilkes, 78, 74;
on the death of Churchill, 76, 77;
writes Wilkes in Latin, 77; in
Naples with Wilkes, 79; his con-
quest of the great man, 80; his
correspondence with Wilkes, 80,
82; plans an "heroic epistle" to
Wilkes, 81, 82; their association
interrupted by the tour to Cor-
sica, 82, 83; and Lord Mayor
Wilkes, 83, 85; at the Mansion

House, 83, 84; brings Wilkes and
Johnson together, 85 ff.; fails to
entice Johnson to Wilkes's house,
86, 87; his later relations with
Wilkes, 88, 89; the cabinet at Au-
chinleck and its treasures, 89, 90,
192; what might have been, 90.

Reason for his preference for the
society of older men, 92, 93, 94;
familiar conception of, as a hero-
worshipper, erroneous, 93; why
he teased Johnson about the free-
dom of the will, 93, 94; always
seeking advice, 94, 95; what he
gave in return, 95; his attitude
defined, 95, 96; his filial affection
gradually extinguished, 96, 97;
but his imagination fascinated by
his father, 97, 98; his love of a
good story inherited, 98; his
father's opinion of his associates,
98; relations with Sir A. Dick,
98 ff.; his Italian tour, 100, 101;
his visit to Herculaneum, Naples
and Rome described in letter to
Dick, 101-103; was his enthusi-
asm sincere? 103; travels with
Lord Mountstuart, 103; proves
John Dick's title to baronetcy,
104-106; proposes to "Boswell-
ise" Sir A. Dick, 106-108, 252;
relations with Paoli, 108 ff.; his
sympathy with America, Ireland,
and the Scottish Highlands, 109;
becomes interested in the Corsi-
cans, 110; his first meeting with
Paoli described by both, 110, 111;
Sir G. O. Trevelyan quoted on the
Tour to Corsica, 112; solicits
articles on Corsica from friends,
113; publishes British Essays in
Favour of the Brave Corsicans, 113;
H. Walpole quoted on Paoli and,
113; his account of Paoli's recep-
tion in England, 114, 115; Paoli's
house his headquarters in London,

115; his enduring friendship with
Paoli, 115, 116.

Sir W. Temple his constant con-
fidant, 119-121; his dreams of
greatness, 120, 121; his concep-
tion of a worthy mistress of Au-
chinleck, 121; his passion for Miss
W- -t, 121-123; his relations
with Mlle. de Zuylen (Zélide),
126-136; his extraordinary letter
to her, 128 ff.; his "preposterous
humour," 132; Zélide decides not
to marry him, 135; their corres-
pondence continued, 135, 142,
143; submits her letters to Rous-
seau, 135; were they suited to
each other? 135, 136; the Italian
Signora at Siena, 136, 142, 143;
the problem of his relations with
the sex laid before Paoli, 137;
woos Kate Blair, "the Princess,'
138 ff.; his instructions to Temple
on his visit of inspection, 139–141;
in the emotional rapids, 142;
his intrigue with the "Moffat
woman," 144, 145; effect of his
other affairs on his relations with
Miss Blair, 145; his rivals, 146;
describes to Temple an interview
with Miss Blair, 147-149, 150;
conspires with Fullarton, 151,
152; is finally rejected by Miss
Blair, 152, 153; success of his
Account of Corsica, 153, 154, 157;
Zélide proposes to translate it into
French, 154; recurs to his idea of
marrying her, 154; but is disen-
chanted, and welcomes his father's
refusal to entertain the idea, 155,
156; smitten with la belle Irland-
aise, 156, 157; writes of her to
Temple and Sir A. Dick, 157, 158;
has a relapse in favour of Miss
Blair, 159; visits Ireland, 159, 160;
how to approach the Lord Lieu-
tenant, 160; la belle Irlandaise
again in the ascendant, 161;

marries Margaret Montgomery,
161, 162; his relations with his
wife, 162, 163; "Uxoriana," his
vain attempt to "Boswellise" her,
163, 164.

A disciple of the "philosophy of
exposure," 166; a lover of "fric-
tion," 166 ff.; and Mrs. Rudd,
166, 167; his affectation of igno-
rance or prejudice, 167; his skill
in starting or directing the flow of
talk, illustrated from the Life of
Johnson, 169, 170; eternally ask-
ing questions, 169; his skill in
playing upon men, 170, 171;
character of the conversations he
records, 171, 172; character of his
letters, 172; his letter to Gold-
smith on She Stoops to Conquer,
173, 178, 179; his genius analyzed,
180 ff.; his "romantic imagina-
tion," 180-182; his unfulfilled
scheme of "going up the Baltic"
with Johnson, 182; his every
achievement, in the beginning a
crack-brained dream, 183, 184;
his delight in the realization of his
dreams, 184, 185; his social success
due to his perpetual good humour,
185 ff.; his election to the Literary
Club due to it, 186; Fanny Bur-
ney quoted on, 187-189; tries
vainly to enlist her assistance in
gathering material for the Life,
188; character of his gaiety, 189,
190; his abiding habit of recording
social life, 190.

His note-books lost, 192; his
testamentary provision for publi-
cation of material in the cabinet at
Auchinleck nullified by his ex-
ecutors' neglect, 192, 193; his
MSS. mostly destroyed by the
family, 193; the Commonplace
Book and one journal alone pre-
served, 193; contents of the latter,
194, 195; parallel passages of the

journal and the Life, 195, 197–
201; how did he make his note-
books? 201 ff.; accuracy of his
record due to the training of his
memory, 204-206; the journey to
the Hebrides with Johnson, 206 ff.;
his fears that Johnson would not
write a description of the tour,
and his consequent "goading,"
208, 209; his selfish motive, 210;
not satisfied with Johnson's book,
210, 211; his "Remarks" thereon,
211; plans to publish a supple-
ment, but abandons the idea, 212;
his own Journal of a Tour, etc.,
published after Johnson's death,
212 ff.; the book a standard of
indiscretion, 214; how it was re-
ceived by his enemies and friends,
214-217; his answer to his critics,
217, 218; the happiest of books,
218, 219.

His general notions in writing
the Life of Johnson, 221; his pre-
vailing fault, 221; modest in spite
of himself, 221, 222; fails to real-
ize the extent of his achievement,
224; how his genius exhibited it-
self, 225, 226; effect of the publi-
cation of the Life, 225; describes
the labour involved, 227; the
thoroughness of the work a proof
of its greatness, 227; his prepara-
tions for writing it, and his method,
228; relations with Lord Lons-
dale, 228, 229; troubles about
printing, 229; and Malone,
229, 230; extant proof-sheets de-
scribed, 230, 231; character of his
changes and corrections on proofs,
232, 233, 236, 237; will his own
copy of the Life ever turn up? 238.

His latter years not a pleasant
study, 239; his father's death
enables him to transfer his resi-
dence to London, 240; his in-
herited estate embarrassed by his

debts, 240, 241; called to the Eng-
lish bar, but has no briefs, 241,
242; his Scottish practice sacri-
ficed to the charms of London,
242; his ambition to enter Parlia-
ment, and his subserviency to
Lonsdale, 243; as Master of Au-
chinleck, a just and generous land-
lord, 243 ff.; plans to visit the
allied armies in France (1793),
247; beaten and robbed in London,
247, 248; his intemperance, 249,
250; his gaiety of disposition
never deserted him, 250; and
Warren Hastings, 250; his death,
250, 251; revision of the Life, 251;
his reputation well-nigh sub-
merged by Johnson's, 251; his
present status in the regard of the
public, 252; his unexecuted lit-
erary projects, 252, 253; plans,
with Johnson's encouragement, a
history of the invasion of the Pre-
tender (1745), 253, 254; his essen-
tial amiability, 254, 255.

Letters (quoted entire or in
part): to David Boswell, 10; Sir D.
Dalrymple, 17, 31, 70, 71, 92; Sir
A. Dick, 100, 101, 105, 106, 107,
113, 158, 160, 161; Andrew Gibb,
244, 246; C. Giffardier, 35; Sam-
uel Johnson, 184; John Johnston,
20-22; Warren Hastings, 250;
Sir M. le Fleming, 248; Andrew
Mitchell, 46, 47; Bishop Percy,
222; Jean Jacques Rousseau, 50–
52, 54, 55, 58, 59, 134; Sir William
Scott, 226; Anna Seward, 223;
Rev. W. Temple, 12, 18, 121, 140,
144, 147, 150, 152, 154, 155, 156,
157, 212, 223, 227, 242; Henry
Thrale, 208; John Wilkes, 74, 76,
78, 85, 87, 89, 171; Isabella de
Zuylen, 45, 128 ff.

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Works. "Account of Corsica"
(Tour to Corsica), H. Walpole on,
63; Sir G. O. Trevelyan on, 111;

success of, 153, 157; quoted or
referred to, 17, 60, 93, 109, 110,
202, 206. "British Essays in
Favour of the Brave Corsicans,"
113. Commonplace Book, de-
scribed, 193, 194; quoted or re-
ferred to, 27, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 41,
44, 98, 171, 182, 205, 206. "The
Cub at Newmarket," 5. "Jour-
nal of a Tour to the Hebrides with
Samuel Johnson, LL.D.", 30, 212-
219, 238. "Life of Johnson,"
considered at length, 220-238;
Macaulay's summary of, 222;
second edition, 248; third edition
far advanced when B. died, 251;
quoted or referred to, 31, 32, 85,
88, 90, 114, 169, 170, 180, 182, 188,
190, 193, 194 ff., 202, 204, 205,
253, 254. "Memoirs of Paoli";
"Account of Corsica." "Ode
to Tragedy," 1, 3. "Tour to
Corsica"; see "Account of Cor-
sica."

see

Boswell, Margaret (Montgomery),
B.'s wife, trials of her married life,
162, 163; fails to understand B.,
163; his vain attempt to "Bos-
wellise" her, 163; her death, 228.
And see Montgomery, Margaret.
Boswell, Robert, 193.

Boswell, Thomas, ancestor of B., 7.
Boswell family, the, and B.'s MSS.,
193; refuses assistance to scholars
seeking information, 238.
"Boyd, Aunt," 159.

British Museum, letters of Wilkes
in, 74.

Brown, J. T. T., quoted, on B. as an
advocate, 29.

Brown,, Rev.,William, at Utrecht, 34.
Bruce, James, 140.

Bruce, Robert, B. descended from, 67.
Brunswick, Princess of, 45.
Burke, Edmund, 89, 205 and n.
Burney, Frances. See Arblay, Ma-
dame d'.