Private papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle : in the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham (Index)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Private papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle : in the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham (Index)
Other titles: Boswell papers
Classmark: BC Gen q/BOS
Creator(s): Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Additional creator(s): Scott, Geoffrey (1885-1929) (Other); Pottle, Frederick Albert (1897-1987) (Other); Isham, Ralph Heyward (1890-1955) (Other); Foladare, Joseph (Other); Kirby, John Pendy (Other)
Related people: Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Isham, Ralph Heyward, 1890-1955; Scott, Geoffrey; Pottle, Frederick Albert; Isham, Ralph Heyward; Foladare, Joseph; Kirby, John Pendy
Publisher: W.E. Rudge, priv. print
Publication city: [Mount Vernon, N.Y]
Date(s): [1928-34]
Language: English
Size and medium: 18 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277290
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000558479705181
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Half-title.
Each volume has special t.-p.
"Designed by Bruce Rogers. Five hundred and seventy copies printed by William Edwin Rudge and the type distributed"--Colophon.
Vols. 7-18 edited by Geoffrey Scott and Frederick A. Pottle.
Issued in slipcases with slipcase spine title: Boswell papers.
Index. Compiled by Frederick lA. Pottle with the assistance of Joseph Foladare, John P. Kirby and others. pp.xx,359,[1]. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1937.
Contents: 1. Early papers of James Boswell, 1754-1763, with the record of David Boswell's oath, devised, written and witnessed by James Boswell, 29 October 1767.--2. Zelide, a correspondence between James Boswell and Belle de Zuylen. Inviolable plan, to be read over frequently; and other papers.--3. Journal of a tour through the courts of Germany by James Boswell, 1764.--4. Boswell with Rousseau and Voltaire, 1764.--5. Porzia Sansedoni : love-letters of James Boswell written in Italy, 1765.--6. The making of the life of Johnson as shown in Boswell's first notes, original diaries, and revised drafts: a study of Boswell's biographical method... .--7. 1765-1768. Corsica, Italy, France, England, Scotland. Correspondence and interview with William Pitt, and papers showing the development of the Account of Corsica. With this vol. is an Announcement of the change of editor (4pp.).--8. 1769. Love-letters of James Boswell and Margaret Montgomerie. With other documents relative to their courtship and
marriange.--9. 1772-1774. His jaunt to London, Spring, 1772. With a letter from Oliver Goldsmith concerning 'She stoops to conquer', 1773. And the story of his efforts on behalf of his client John Reid hanged for sheep-stealing, 21 September 1774.--10. 1774-1775. His threatened duel with William Miller, October, 1774. His jaunt to London, Spring, 1775. The birth of his son Alexander, 9 October, 1775.--11. 1775-1776. His jaunts to London, Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, Ashbourne, Bath and Bristol, and his meeting with Margaret Caroline Rudd, Spring, 1776.--12. 1776-1777. The account of his last interview with David Hume, 7 July, 1776.--13. 1777-1779. At Ashbourne with Dr. Johnson, September, 1777. In Scotland, Carlisle and London, September 1777-September 1779. Uxoriana and letters.--14. 1779-1781. David Boswell's return to Scotland, June, 1780. Jaunt to London, Spring 1781. Letters.
Contents (cont'd): 15. 1781-1783. Death of Lord Auchinleck, 30 August 1782. Jaunt to London, Spring 1783. Materials for writing the life of Lord Kames.--16. 1783-1786. Death of Dr. Johnson, 13 December 1784. Publication of 'The journal of a tour to the Hebrides' and a quarrel with Lord MacDonald, September-December 1785. Admission to the English Bar, 9 February 1786. Letters.--17. 1786-1789. Removal to London, September 1786. Work on the 'Life of Johnson'. Elected Recorder of Carlisle, 11 January 1788. Death of Mrs. Boswell, 4 June 1789. Letters to Mrs. Boswell.--18. 1789-1794. Quarrel with Lord Lonsdale, June 1790. Publication of the 'Life of Johnson', 16 May 1791. Jaunt to Cornwall, August-September 1792. Letters.
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