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Title: Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica

Author: James Boswell

Editor: George Birkbeck Hill

Release Date: January 4, 2007 [eBook #20263]

Language: English

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BOSWELL'S

CORRESPONDENCE

WITH THE HONOURABLE

ANDREW ERSKINE

AND HIS

JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO CORSICA

(Reprinted from the Original Editions)

Edited

With a Preface, Introduction, and Notes

by

GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.

Author of "Dr. Johnson: His Friends and His Critics."

London:
Thos. De La Rue & Co.
1879

Printed by
Thomas De La Rue and Co., Bunhill Row,
London.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE i

LETTERS BETWEEN THE HONOURABLE ANDREW ERSKINE
AND JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. 3

INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO CORSICA 101

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 125

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 135

THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO CORSICA 137

APPENDIX 239

BOSWELL AND ERSKINE'S LETTERS.

PREFACE.

Boswell did not bring out his "Life of Johnson" till he was past his
fiftieth year. His "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" had appeared more
than five years earlier. While it is on these two boo