Edinburgh-born James Boswell , at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763.
This Journal presents a record of adventures ranging from his recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer..
Edinburgh-born James Boswell , at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763