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admiration of 692; at Shakespeare’s Jubilee 297; his shorthand 668–9; his long head equal to it 857; slavery, approves of 632, 633–4, 638; no Socrates 275; soldier, desires to be a, see military ambitions; sophist, plays the 732; studies, S.J.’s advice as to his 218, 227, 240, 242, 244, 249–50, 743; succession: preference for male 468 n. a, 484, 489 n. a; to the barony of Auchinleck 483–90; superstitious 129–30, 815 n. a, 914, 974–5; see also ghosts; mystery; Index of Subjects: second sight; sympathy, blames himself for lack of 308; a tanti man 825; tenderness, calls for 640; toleration, discusses 394–6; topics, has but two 547; his Toryism 581, 617 n. a; town, pleasure in seeing a new 610; tranquillity, desires 639; truthfulness, see accuracy; unobservant 936; Utrecht, goes to 212, 248; his vanity 8; vows: love of making 271, 275; of sobriety, see drinking; Walton’s writings, edified by 413; water-drinking, tries, see drinking; wine, love of, see drinking; at York 909, 911.

III Relations and Correspondence with other Persons, and their Correspondence with, and Opinions of, Boswell

Dr Adams, correspondence with 6, 973; Baretti, exposes 265; Beattie, correspondence with 339 n. a; Blair: correspondence with 740; witnesses agreement for his Sermons 571; Godfrey Bosville, correspondence with 761; Burke, friendship with 879; Dr Churton, correspondence with 929 n. a; Courtenay’s lines on him 123; Dr Cullen, correspondence with 908; Derrick in his London ‘tutor’ 239; Edward Dilly, correspondence with 579; Donaldson, praises 231; father: censures him for his second marriage 301; disagrees with him 570; – about heirs general and heirs male 483–4, 565; on better terms with him 263, 569, 570, 578, 637, 723, 763; S.J.’s advice about him 749; uneasy with him 226; see also Others: Auchinleck, Lord; lends Sir W. Forbes his journal 635; thinks Fox had no notion of immortality 453; Garrick: correspondence with 724; friendship with 145, 724; slyly introduces his fame 665; soothes him 302; Mrs Garrick, dines with 816; Gibbon, dislike of, see Others: Gibbon, Edward; Goldsmith: account of 218–21; dines him 304; mentions his foibles 219, 359, 398; takes leave of him 399; visits his lodgings 356; great or celebrated men, acquaintance with 267, 552, 625; has hopes: from Burke 885; from the Rockingham ministry 847; Lord Hailes, correspondence with 229; Warren Hastings, correspondence with 799; Hector: correspondence with 973; visits withS.J. 507–8, 510–11; see also Others: Hector, Edmund; Hume, interview with, on his deathbed 605; Johnson (Boswell’s opinions on): acquaintance with (chronological) – first meeting 208, 448; – calls on him for the first time 210; – entertains him for the first time 223–4; – dines for the first time at his house 374; – weekly meetings to be arranged 586 n. a; – need of a yearly meeting 585, 590, 630, 761; – under his roof for the last time 949; – last talk 949; – last farewell 950; awe, regrets losing some of his 645; breakfasts with 739; censures for inattention to Lord Marchmont 790; close connection with 428; constant respectful attention to 453; consulted about America by 418, 430; conversation, records – at first with difficulty 223; – with assiduity 19; – with less assiduity 298; – fails to record it 242, 824; collects his sayings into volumes 810; death of, viewed with dismay 576; diary, reads his 992; differs from in politics on two points only 643, 905; discusses him with Robertson and Reynolds at Ramsay’s 702–3; his ‘Guide, Philosopher and Friend’ 522, 831, 1000; hide his faults, does not 21, 671 n. b; his Journey, reads in one night 417; leads him to talk 360, 539; letters – kept back 584, 586; – keeps copies of those to him 262; – gaps in correspondence with 262, 285; – neglects to write to him 334, 736–7, 975; –proposes weekly correspondence 738; – to 262, 271, 273, 293, 315, 334, 335, 337, 368, 405, 410–11, 412–13, 417, 419, 420, 427, 464, 467, 480, 481, 489, 490, 565, 567, 568, 573, 575, 577–8, 583, 586 n. a, 589, 591, 592, 593, 636, 637, 639, 642–4, 673, 718, 724, 734, 737, 745, 747, 757, 760–62,