Note 31 — MEMOIR OF JAMES BOSWELL.
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“I could give you pages of strong sense and humour which I have heard from that great man, and which are treasured up in my journal. And here I must inform you that he desired me to keep just the journal that I do; and when I told him that it was already my practice, he said he was glad I was upon so good a plan.”—MS. letter from Boswell of 13th July, 1763, preserved at New Hailes.