The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763: ...

PThis volume assembles the bulk of the surviving letters between the young Boswell and his circle of friends up to the time he wrote his now famous journal in London. Opening with an exchange with the gentleman-actor West Digges, it closes with letters written around the time Boswell first met Samuel Johnson, briefly before his departure for legal study in Utrecht./PPDavid Hankins (1936-2005) was associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs./P