The journals of a legendary Scottish writer
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his
eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not
discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record
of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a
Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with
Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and
biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and
compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.
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