M 179

Memoranda. "Going in Sir Joshua's Coach ...".

Dating. [?Spring 1778] seems the best, on account of the Reg. Let. item to Archibald Macdonald. There is no journal for 9, 10, 11 May 1778. The first mention of Sir Joshua in the 1778 London journal is Friday 27 March -- "Sir Joshua's".

Of the members of the party: Sir Thomas Mills is not mentioned in 1778 journals. He was knighted 5 June 1772. "town major of Quebec".

Caleb Whitefoord -- no mention in 1778 journal. Archibald Macdonald is mentioned. 12 May 1778 (May 12, Page ninth: "Miss Wilkes yesterday after dinner gave the best toast To the Memory of Mr. Pitt. Strahan said to me of Archie McDon who was by He's in the high way to be Chancellor. Said I. We must have a little seal made for him.)

Sir Grey Cooper, Bt. JB saw him 18 May 1778 ("...Dundas & Sr Grey out of chaise.")

M 181

Memoranda. "Mems". Dating: (1) letter on verso dated 27 Oct 1778.

(2) "order for Creochhill" -- on 28 Oct JB, Stobie, and James Bruce rode to the Traboch and surveyed most of it: "We next fixed on Creochhill grassyard for making a plantation." They also visited Gibston. On 29 Oct JB and James Bruce looked at Mount James. They "came in by the Know.". On 30 Oct JB studied "Constitution of the Estate". On 31 Oct with James Bruce to the Broom-house and viewed the water of Lugar in the greatest flood in the memory of man. 2 Nov. to Riccarton. 3 Nov. to Bruntwood. 4 Nov. "Planted a plane tree to mark how far Lugar was out on 31st Oct" "Planted 3 plane trees upon Stronis Acre, just by the house". (3) "Mark Mater: concedo" Does this refer to his mother's contract of marriage -- see Jl 31 Oct 1778.

Dr. Cooper's parca medicina-- David Cooper, minister of Auchinleck was an M.D. This was his thesis (see BP xii.6)

The refs. to Cooper, Fowler and Craigston may be anecdotes told by Lord Auchinleck or by the Rev. Geo. Reid on 5 Nov.

"Pay Acct. to Meuros." James Meuros, was a Bookseller in Kilmarnock (advert. in Edin. Eve. Courant, Monday, 20 July 1767, p.1)

M 182

Memorandum. --"Mem his thinking you mad." Dating is from the ref. on the verso to "Lords of Session v. Rom Cath Bill..." The anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh occurred in Feb 1779; JB had consultations with Bishop Hay in London this spring.

"his thinking you mad ..." Probably JB has in mind a Scotsman. The Journal (not complete for this London jaunt) mentions meetings with Robt. Preston, Sir J. Pringle, Erskine (?25 Mar -- unidentified,--? Thomas), Ld Mountstuart, Ld Marchmont, Broughton, Forbes, Anderson, David Rae, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Webster; Lds Eglinton, Glencairn, and Capt Murray (of this group JB adds, "was on my guard with a neighbour"), Ld. Graham, Spottiswood, Allan Ramsay, Mcdonnell and Small, Ld Loudoun, W. Brown, Fairlie, D. of Argyll, Ld Lothian, Fullerton, Ld Balcarres, Anstruther, Robertson, Ld Cassillis (some of these meetings do not occur on a possible day of the week).

Rev. Jo. Palmer, a nephew of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Hon. Canon of Lincoln. He isn't ment. in what we have of the 1779 journal. Dr. Thomas Fysche Palmer, a friend of SJ at this time, appears at least twice, always called "Dr. Palmer".

Dilly's -- apparently evenings of Fri. 19 Mar; Sat 3 Apr, Sun 4 Apr, Thur 15 Apr, Sun 18 Apr.

M 186

This memorandum seems best dated [Dec 1781 or Jan 1782]. Besides the reasons given on the cat. slip, the following may be noted: "See 25 Regt exercise". The *Scots Mag*. Oct 1781 p. 549 shows this Regt "presently lying in Edinburgh Castle"; it had been there in June also (*Scots Mag*.*) I did not find any ref. to it in 1782.

"Ranking of Hallglenmuir". Hallglenmuir fled to America in May 1780 (See C 2036). His estate was bought by the Laird of Logan, *Ayrshire* at the *Time of Burns* says perhaps 1779, but I do not believe it was so early; he would not have forfeited the property before his flight; his creditors would not have allowed it to be sold before a "ranking".

* Tweedie: See Reg. Let., *Sent* 18 Apr 1780, Lord Chief Baron asking him to do something for the relief of poor Tweedie Representative of Drumelzier. This is a clue to Tweedie's identification only; I find no mention of him which would place him in the dates given.

There is a gap in all our Scotch newspapers for the period 1780-1783, so I could not check on the items there.

* For the ancient family of Tweedie of Peebleshire (Drumelzier) see Buchan, J.W. and Paton, H. History of Peebleshire, iii.421ff. with Pedigree.

M 189

MEMORANDA. Conversations in Lichfield

[between ?30 Apr and 4 May 1784]

See C 2100

C 2100, side 4

Peter Garrick said in this country we love strong wine something that will strike hard upon the pallet. I had some very old and with all the flavour but smooth and mild. The Col of a Regt [A Colonel -- crossed out] who lay here [yr -- crossed out] a countryman of yours who by his brothers death became a Lord said he did not like it -- It wanted the hammer. If a man [is (not) cursed with Avørice -- crossed out] has not the devil of Ambition or Avarice and has done something he may live very comfortably as one does here. Content is the great requisite. Bos But that is against animated enterprise. Gar con[sider] old age Bos True. A man must then have his provision laid up. He must not to have to forage. Gar No when a man is old that is too hard work. Miss Rogers. In Van of hum wishes the Beggar * [Note in margin:]* It is not Beggar -- but needy traveler, increase his riches borders on a Bull Malicious pleas[ure] that so great a man shd be catched in an errour [continued in margin] by so little a creature as I am

Young's Night thoughts more images than any Poem but Hudibras. Very different -- But there similitude Miss Seward [?] For Love w[hi]c[h] scarce collective Man (see over)

by some said to be indelic Bos No no The Context shews not. It might --
as Anacreon says How many loves Corinth too &c That scarce collective &c

Note: I was unable to find this line in the *Night Thoughts*. No wonder -- it is one of the closing lines of *The Vanity of Human Wishes*.

Note: Miss Rogers. Friend of Anna Seward. I have not been able to find her first name. In Anna Seward's *Letters*, ii.69, I found that in 1783 she was living at Dronfield in Derbyshire; she had twin sisters; she was a poetess. One of her sisters was Charlotte Rogers, who marr. Mr. Zachary, a Quaker. I also found the following marriage in *Gent. Mag.*, 1784. June 10, at Dronfield, Co. Derby, Dr. Stokes of Stourbridge, Worcestersh., to Miss Rogers.

Notes on M 191.1, which I have dated 18 [? 3 Apr 1789]
"Sabbato 18"

Limiting cues:

(1) JB is at Auchinleck, or approaching it (given below)

(2) He is Laird (from Nov 1782)

(3) Mrs. Boswell is living (she died 4 June 1789)

(4) He is a Justice of the Peace (made J.P. 28 Oct 1783)

Therefore years must be after 28 Oct 1783 to 19 May 1789

Dates when the 18th of the month fell on Saturday between the above dates, at times when JB was at or en route to Auchinleck:

1783 -- Oct 18; 1784-- Sept 18; 1787 -- Aug 18; 1788 -- Oct 18; 1789 -- 18 Apr.

1783 -- Oct 18. As he did not qualify as a J.P. until 28 Oct (and was then chosen Praeses of the Quarter Sessions, this does not seem too likely a date, unless he was looking forward to being made J.P. Also there is no evidence that Bruce Campbell was acting as his agent at this time, although Bruce might have been called upon for casual help.

1784 -- Sept 18. No Journal. The Book of Company shows JB at Auchinleck, and on the 16th Sept records that Logan, Gilmilscroft, Mayfield (Bruce Campbell), Turnerhill, Knockroon, Mr. Ja. Johnston, were there and that Turnerhill and Knockroon stayed all night. The Bk of Comp. lists nothing for Sept 17 and 18th. JB held a Baron Court (Baron Court Book in Talbot Inventories) on 30 Oct 1784 -- JB's first time of entering in the book after becoming Laird), but this seems too distant in time to be relevant. Earliest reference I have found to B. Campbell's agency was in Oct 1785; he held a Baron Court 13 Feb 1786 (evidently his first as his authorization from JB to be Baron Baillie is stated), and another on 27 Dec 1786.

1787 -- Aug 18. On this date JB was en route to Auchinleck with Mrs. Boswell. They arrived 20 Aug and stayed until 24 Sept. Mrs. Boswell was in better health than usual during this jaunt, rode and went about visiting, but still she might qualify as being "nervous". The Journal does not mention a Court either at Auchinleck or at Ayr.

*Wrong; JB attended the Circuit at Aug 13, 1784.

1788 -- Oct 18. (At one time I had catalogued the piece under this date; it seems almost equally good as the 18 Apr 1789 date). No Journal. JB was either en route, or just arrived at Auchinleck with Mrs. Boswell, who was very ill. They left London 15 May. From (?) 18 May to 1 July JB was at Auchinleck; 1 July - 15 Aug on Northern Circuit (his Journal and Accounts for this Circuit, J 105.1, A 46, are kept largely in Italian); 15 Aug - 3 Oct "much from home canvassing the County" (Bk of Company); 3-9 Oct, Jaunt to Carlisle (Bk of Comp.); 9-20 Oct at Auchinleck; 20-26 Oct en route to London with Sandy and Jamie. Bruce Campbell held a Baron Court on 5 Sept 1788 and another on 1 Oct 1788, the minutes of this last written by JB, but signed by Bruce Campbell. These may be the "Minutes" referred to by JB. The Book of Company shows Bruce Campbell at Auchinleck on 16 and 19 Sept.

Penbreck -- JB had written about his feudal superiority of Penbreck to Robt Boswell in Feb 1788 and wrote again soon after arriving in London and on 4 May 1789. JB lapsed into Italian noticeably this year. See also my notes on the *Ode by Dr. Johnson to Mrs. Thrale*, published this year.

1789 -- Apr 18. No Journal. 2-6 Apr en route to Auchinleck; 6 Apr - 19 May at Auchinleck. The piece may have been written on 17 Apr or on the morning of Saturday 18 April, giving directions as to things to attend to on the 18th or thereafter.

(1) JB and Veronica arrived from London on account of Mrs. Boswell's illness. (2) JB was a Justice of the Peace (since 28 Oct 1783)

(3) Bruce Campbell. Appted his Baron Baillie by JB in Feb 1786.

(4) Penbreck. On 4 May 1789 he wrote to Robt Boswell about his vassal, also mentioned in a later letter. (5) "Read over the "Minutes" to Mr. B.C." I think these were the minutes of a Baron Court -- the

Notes on M 191.1 "Sabbato 18".

2

1789 -- Apr 18. (continued) last one had been 1 Oct 1788 when B.C. acted as Baron Baillie, but the minutes are written in JB's hand. The next court was to be held on 18 Apr 1789 (see Baron Court Book -- Talbot Inventory No.6, p.6). It is possible that JB wrote up the minutes of the 1 Oct 1788 court and wanted B.C. to read them and sign them before the 18 Apr session. JB intended to be present: "Siete ferme e con gravita professionale" are JB's directions for his behaviour on the occasion. (6) The Book of Company shows that Bruce Campbell and David Campbell, probably brother of Treesbank, were at Auchinleck on Apr 11th, and on Sat. 18 April. "Turnerhill" was also there that day. It was on Tues 5 May JB was at Ayr at the Quarter Sessions and moved the Address to the Prince of Wales. (7) "Pensate calmamente ... M.M." Mrs. Boswell was in great distress from her illness, but JB remarks on her as "at times able to converse with as much spirit as ever" (letter to Sandy 15 Apr 1789); again, "But she with admirable spirit pressed my going [to Carlisle]" (letter to Robt Boswell 21 May 1789); see also letter to Temple 22 May 1789 (<u>Letters</u> ii.368ff) for similar remarks.

For the identification of "Turnerhill" see my note under Boswell, John ("Old Knockroon")

Evidence to be deduced from the items
on the <u>verso</u> of M 191.1

The top of the paper contained:
"Motto for
Suicide
Diog Laert. Life of Zeno"

It had been placed by JB in a packet labeled by JB, "Additions for the Hypochondriack",
with other papers relating to JB's plan to publish a collected edition of his es-
says. One of the items a clipping from The Public Advertiser of a letter dated
26 Aug 1783; other items can be dated as late as 1790. The packet also contained
JB's letter to Temple of 6 July 1784.

The essay on Suicide, No. 51, had appeared Dec 1781, with a motto from St. Augustine.
JB has written in the margin of the set he was revising (P 64), "Look for a differ-
ent motto and introduce this into the body of the Paper where St. Augustine is
mentioned." A suggested motto from Porphyrius is also noted in a margin.

The lower part of the paper had two jottings from Bayle: (1) on "Inflated and antithetical style" (with ref. to article on Guevara); (2) "Mrs. Thrale's (or slyly learned ladies) amorousness" (the ref. is to the article on Gravini; however, JB directs himself to quote directly Tassoni).

It would appear that JB is contemplating writing a piece about Mrs. Thrale. In 1788 he published the Ode by Dr Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale upon their supposed approaching nuptials, dating it 1784, although it was really composed in 1781.

I cannot find any quotation from Tassoni in the Ode. But about the same time (C 1914, Malone to JB 17 June 1788) JB submitted a piece about Mrs. Piozzi to The World -- Malone writes, "Charlotte Wishfort was sent to the World, and was acknowledged to be not without humor; but was never inserted. T. is a friend of the pretty Signora, and I suppose was afraid." (Perhaps Tassoni was quoted in "Charlotte Wishfort".)

Malone also reports the "poem" (the Ode) is not selling well, and comments on Baretti's "strictures" on Mrs. Piozzi in this letter.

It is difficult to say which side was the first to be written on. I think probably the
side with the literary references. When JB was making up his packet of Hypochondri-
ack additions he tore off the portion "Motto for Suicide" to put in it. 1788 seems a
more likely date for the writing on this side of the scrap.

M 195

"Angel 28 March 1790". There is no journal, but JB was pretty certainly in London on this date. At first I thought this might be something heard at an inn.

"Angel" was JB's name for an early flame (see the Biog. p.479). About this time (28 Mar 1790) the Reg. Let. records:

[before 9 Apr 1790] to "Rev. Mr. Temple a short note as to a fit of love of the most dangerous kind -- promising to write more fully soon." (Temple replies, 17Apr 1790, that since JB has not favoured him as promised with a full account of a recent "fit of love", he presumes it was of short duration).

On 10 Apr to "Lord Rockville ... His remark the devil not done with me -- A late instance of such danger, that I do not like to recollect it."

On 15 Apr to "Countess of Craufurd of my having been in a dangerous fever of love ... [sending her] Specimens of my *Slavery & Love* Poem".

M 197

(transcription) Mr. Barlow Leadenhall
Street dealt with Foulis & Preston

B mentioned how shortly he said the boy is to
go Send him up. Ay Ay he don't like long
Prologues East India Trade not what it was
-- Gold off the Gingerbread new by [?]com-
parison as one may say -- Ah Billy Pitt he
knows all trades or has those about him who
do. He finds out your smugling. Bos But a
fine fellow for the Nation -- And what a set
have we against him Char Fox the Gambler
Sheridan the Player and such like -- A grumb-
ling friend And what was Pitt when he was out
of True, Sir, as poor as a Church rat &
would be so again. I'm told he has not a shilling
And there's Burke the Irishman what
[?]stake has he in this country. What cares
he whether the ship sinks or swells a fellow
come out of an Irish bog. Stranger I don't
know what he is but be what he will he's a
rum Jack -- dog (on the stones of )
I think this is rumble & Jumble.

Note: Sorry I cannot surely decipher the key
word to the joke; it may be "Lusty", but I
think the first letter looks more like an "S".
Best I could do was "sutly" and"suply", old
spellings from subtly and supple. "Rumble &
Jumble" is a slang phrase pertaining to a
rough, stony road (OED).

(continued)

M 197

Card 2

[In right margin] Mr Dillys [?]franks Mr.
N Neil tuesda

dating, etc: 21 Nov 1790, Sunday, JB at
Wilkes (see L 1300). In his letter to Malone
4 Dec 1790 JB says, "since your departure I
have dined with Jack Wilkes [21 Nov]; at the
London Tavern, after the launch of an India-
man; with dear Edwards; Dilly; at home with
Courtenay ..." I think this conversation
with Barlow took place at the London Tavern
after the launch (see refs. to Foulis, Pres-
ton, East India Trade, etc.). Or, perhaps at
Dilly's sometime after the launching; howev-
er, note "Stranger".

I do not find any Barlow in the UBD who is
definitely this one; nor in the Gent. Mag.
obits. I did not find N. Neil either.

I find in Gen. Eve. Post, Tues. 23/Thurs 25
November 1790, No.8917, p.[4]: "The Woodford
Indiaman launched at Blackwall on Monday last
is the largest ever built; she carries 1250 tons".
"last Monday" would be 22 Nov 1790.

M 199:1

Earl of Moray (James Stuart, 4th E., succ. 1637/38; d. Mar 1652/53) GEC

Lady Grizel m. Robt Innes of Innes
see Scots created Baronet, 1625
Peerage, Baronetage ii.280-81
vii.356
VI.318

Elizabeth Innes m. Donald Campbell
of Boghall, son
of Cawdor

Henrietta Campbell m. John Grant
min. of Auch-
see <u>Fasti</u>, iii.3 inleck

Capt. Lewis Grant, Chelsea College

Lady Mary m. 9th E. of Ar-
gyll, 1650.

Archibald Campbell, 1st D.
of Argyll, d. 1703

Lady Anne Campbell m. James
Stuart, 2d E. of Bute,
1711

John Stuart, 3d E. of Bute,
d. 1792
(dates in this line all
from GEC)

M 176-199

MEMORANDA

See Also:

J 11.8 Notebook [1766]

M 36 Boswelliana [Nov 1779]

M 80 Epitaphs and Inscriptions

M 205 Names and addresses of people met while traveling, etc.

M 206 "Note of debts ..."

M 228:2 Reading. D'Urfey. (At Lowther Castle, ?1786)

C 522 Boswell, T. D. Receipt [?Feb 1793]

C 1483 Hamilton, Alexander. 29 Mar 1786

C 1589 Jephson, R. M. to Malone. [?Nov 1787]

C 2223 Penn, Richard. [9 June 1792].