James Boswell

(1740-1795)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Boswell, James, 1740-1795 NRA: Boswell, James (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson, diarist DNB: Boswell, James (1740-1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson LBT ID: JaBoswe1795 VIAF ID: 64002337 LOC ID: n79018795	B/BAP: 1740-10-29 DIED: 1795-05-19
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Scottish man of letters, author of The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).
REFERENCES TO James Boswell: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 February [1793] in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 18 September 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Henry Southey, 23 August 1815 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “On the Cockney School of Poetry. No. V” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (April 1819) 97-100 Found 1: ¶ 7 Lord Byron to Sir Walter Scott, 12 January 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 30 March 1822 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 “Duel between Sir A. Boswell and Mr. Stuart” in The Examiner (7 April 1822) 217-18 Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 3 St. Leger, Barry, 1799-1829, “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Monthly Magazine 11 (November 1824) 407-415 Found 1: ¶ 1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 Found 1: ¶ 1 William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 21 January 1825 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 5 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 2: ¶ 56 ¶ 201 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XII. 1779-1786 Found 6: ¶ 24 ¶ 27 ¶ 32 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 “Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries” in New Monthly Magazine NS 22 (January 1828) 84-96 Found 1: ¶ 48 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (2 February 1828) 72-74 Found 1: ¶ 28 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ n3 Life of Byron: 1822 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ n1 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 8 [William Bourne Oliver Peabody], “Moore’s Life of Byron” in North American Review 31 (July 1830) 167-99 Found 1: ¶ 2 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 2 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 10 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1: ¶ 6 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter IX 1810 Found 4: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Chapter I 1816 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter V 1818 Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ 14 Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, 28 January 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. I. 1791-93 Ch. XIX. 1814-1815 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Charles Lamb IX Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb X Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 50 Letters 1843 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 42 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 5 Found 1: ¶ 22 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Note to Chapter VIII Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 14 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 11 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter XI. 1825-1827. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ 48 Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 30 Chapter XII. Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 12 Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ 18 Chap. XXIII. Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ n1 Chap. XXIX. Found 1: ¶ 12 Chap. XXXVII. Found 1: ¶ 6 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 2: ¶ 29 ¶ 82 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter II: 1814 Chapter X: 1822