1. James Boswell, Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1779–1782, ed. Joseph W. Reed and Frederick A. Pottle, The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977), 467.
2. James Boswell, The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756–1795, ed. Thomas Crawford, The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 1:361–62 [hereafter, Boswell/Temple Correspondence].
3. M.S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, and Frederick A. Pottle, Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), C215. The Catalogue will be referred to as “BP” hereafter.
4. James Boswell, Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763 together with Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762, ed. Frederick A. Pottle, The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (London: Heinemann, 1951), 188.
5. Helen Deutsch, “Symptomatic Correspondences: The Author’s Case in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Cultural Critique 42 (Spring 1999): 35–79.