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1768 to 1771
- This chapter describes Johnson and Boswell's friendship from 1768 to 1771. The pair spent time together in the spring of 1768 and the fall of 1769.
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When first reconnecting with Boswell, Johnson had said he had “no objection” to his friend's residing in London, provided he spent at least four months a year at Auchinleck and “could secure a place the salary of which would pay the additional expense of living here.”
Six days later (7 May), because Boswell was now a member of the Club, he and Johnson spent more time together than on any day since 1763, starting with a “good breakfast” at Southwark and ending with tea after supper at the Club.
Boswell first met Johnson in 1763, and from that very first meeting made notes of Johnson's conversation which he was later to use in the biography. The longest period the two men spent together was on a tour to the Hebrides, August-November 1773, but Boswell was able to draw on a large range of informants.
May 30, 2013 · Two key aspects of the relationship stand out: the extent to which Johnson’s biographical - and autobiographical - efforts in The Lives of the Poets offered an ethics of representation for Boswell, engaged in his biography of Johnson, and the significance of their different versions of the Scottish journey as revealed by Johnson’s letters ...
The original manuscript, which marvelously survives to this day, consists of more than a thousand pages of Boswell’s handwriting, together with a similar number containing additional matter. He crossed bits out, introduced new thoughts, toned down some expressions and heightened others.
What did Johnson and Boswell each make of the other when they met on 16 May 1763, and what did each get from their time together during the next twelve weeks?
