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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.

[Pg i]

PREFACE.

Boswell did not bring out his "Life of Johnson" till he was past hisfiftieth year. His "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" had appeared morethan five years earlier. While it is on these two books that his famerests, yet to the men of his generation he was chiefly known for hiswork on Corsica and for his friendship with Paoli. His admiration forJohnson he had certainly proclaimed far and wide. He had long been off,in the words of his father, "wi' the land-louping scoundrel of aCorsican, and had pinned himself to a dominie—an

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