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‘I can now fully understand those intervals of silence in your correspondence with me, which have often given me anxiety and uneasiness; for although I am conscious that my veneration and love for Mr. Johnson have never in the least abated, yet I have deferred for almost a year and a half to write to him.’

In the subsequent part of this letter, I gave him an account of my

comfortable life as a married man[413], and a lawyer in practice at the

Scotch bar; invited him to Scotland, and promised to attend him to the

Highlands, and Hebrides.

‘To JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.