Life. MS. p. 321

Mention of the Dedication for
Adams's *Treatise on the Globes* is
found *ante* MS. p. 318. It is not
marked for deletion or transposit-
ion there, so it was probably
captured in the printing.

Although not indicated for insert-
ion by a particular symbol, the
passage about *Lexiphanes* is found
in Papers Apart (M 145, p.328),
with the heading: "Take this in at
the end of the year 1767".

Life. MS. p.356 †

Boswell's note to "Reserve this
for another year when not in
London" --- ("Langtoniana")

It comes in at the beginning of
1780 (Hill-Powell iv.1)

See Papers Apart, M 145, p.658,
"3 Continuation of p -- 799".

This page 356 is evidently super-
seded by the page 356 which fol-
lows, the Maxwell material being
inserted instead of Langtoniana.

Life. MS., p.361

(at the bottom of the page: "Go to leaves of a smaller Quarto marked RJ")

These are leaves removed from JB's London journal, 1772 (J 24), marked with the necessary revisions for the printer, together with a number of separate leaves where non-Johnsonian passages in the journal required extensive deletions or re-writing. For the convenience of the printer JB arranged the two series consecutively and numbered them.

Leaves removed from the London journal, 1772, are restored to that journal, J 24.

For the separate, re-written leaves, see Papers Apart (M 145 p. 391-422).

Life. MS. pp.364-367

The passage about Strahan was
transferred to 1771, MS. p. opp.
p. 359

See JB's note in margin of p.367.

Life. MS.

p. 496 is missing

pp. 497-502 preserved, but not in
this Collection

Photostats are made of pp.497-502

The doubts which, in my correspondence with him, I had ventured to state as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain towards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable me to inform myself upon that momentous subject, he had altogether disregarded; and had recently published a pamphlet, entitled, 'Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress.'

He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, 'Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.'

Of this performance I avoided to talk with him; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their own consent; and the extreme violence which it breathed, appeared to me so unsuitable to the mildness of a Christian philosopher, and so directly opposite to the principles of peace which he had so beautifully recommended in his pamphlet respecting Falkland's Islands, that I was sorry to see him appear in so unfavourable a light. Besides, I could not perceive in it that ability of argument, or that felicity of expression, for which he was, upon other occasions, so eminent. Positive assertion, sarcastical severity, and extravagant ridicule, which he himself reprobated as a test of truth, were united in this rhapsody.

Life. MS. p.770

"till friday twenty sixth March...
(Take it in)"

See JB's London journal, 1779, J 64, p.6a.