: James Boswell by Leask W Keith William Keith - Boswell James 1740-1795; Authors Scottish 18th century Biography; Biographers Great Britain Biography Famous Scots Series

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EARLY DAYS--MEETS JOHNSON--1740-63 9

THE CONTINENT--CORSICA--1763-66 35

EDINBURGH BAR--STRATFORD JUBILEE--1766-69 54

LOVE AFFAIRS--LITERARY CLUB--1766-73 76

TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES--1773 88

EDINBURGH LIFE--DEATH OF JOHNSON--1773-84 113

THE ENGLISH BAR--DEATH--1784-95 122

IN LITERATURE 143

JAMES BOSWELL

EARLY DAYS--MEETS JOHNSON. 1740-1763

'Behind yon hills, where Lugar flows.'--BURNS.

From Veronica Sommelsdyck, the wife of this royal ancestor , was 'introduced into our family the saint's name,' born by Boswell's own eldest daughter, and other consequences of a much graver nature were destined to ensue. 'For this marriage,' says Ramsay of Ochtertyre, 'their posterity paid dear,' for to it was due, increased no doubt as it was through the inter-marriages in close degrees between various scions of the house, the insanity which is now recognised by all students of his writings in Boswell himself, and which made its appearance in the clearest way in the case of his second daughter. His grandfather James adopted the profession of law in which he obtained some distinction, and left three children--Alexander, the father of the subject of this sketch, John, who followed the practice of medicine, and a daughter Veronica, married to Montgomerie of Lainshaw, whose daughter became the wife of her cousin Bozzy.

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