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‘TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. ‘MY DEAR BOSWELL,
Оглавление‘I have omitted a long time to write to you, without knowing very well why. I could now tell why I should not write; for who would write to men who publish the letters of their friends, without their leave[172]? Yet I write to you in spite of my caution, to tell you that I shall be glad to see you, and that I wish you would empty your head of Corsica, which I think has filled it rather too long. But, at all events, I shall be glad, very glad to see you.
‘I am, Sir,
‘Yours affectionately,
‘SAM. JOHNSON.’
‘Oxford, March 23, 1768.’
I answered thus:
