omits some passages, iv. 84, n. 4;
    visits him, iv. 271, 415;
    will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
  mentioned, ii. 37, n. 1; iv. 49. 
STRAHAN, William, the King’s Printer,
  purchaser in whole or in part of Blair’s Sermons, iii. 97;
    Cook’s Voyages, ii. 247, n. 5;
    Duke of Berwick’s Life, iii. 286;
    Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3;
    Johnson’s Dictionary, i. 287; iv. 32l;
      Journey to the Western Isles, ii. 94;
      Patriot, ii. 288;
      Rasselas, i. 341;
    Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling, i. 360;
  Boswell’s praise of him, i. 288;
  breakfast and dinner at his house, ii. 321; iii. 400;
  coach, keeps his, ii. 226;
  Elphinston’s Martial, iii. 258;
  epigram, how far a judge of an, iii. 258;
  Franklin’s letter to him on their rise in the world, ii. 226, n. 2;
    on the American war, iii. 364, n. 1;
  Gordon Riots, iii. 428-9, 435;
  Hume left him his manuscripts, ii. 136, n, 6;
    corrected Hume’s style, v. 92, n. 3;
  Johnson’s altercation with Adam Smith, iii. 331;
    attempts to bring, into Parliament, ii. 137-9;
    difference with, iii. 364;
    friendly agent, ii. 136;
    interested in one of his apprentices, ii. 323;
    letter to him, iii. 364;
    letters to Scotland, franked, iii. 364;
    one of a deputation to, iii. 111;
  London Chronicle, printer of the, iii. 221;
  member of parliament, ii. 137;
  obtuse, iii. 258;
  Robertson’s style, corrected, v. 92, n. 3;
  small certainties, on, ii. 322;
  Smith’s, Adam, letter to him, v. 30;
  Spottiswoode, Dr., his greatgrandson, ii. 323, n. 2;
  Warburton’s letter, shows, v. 92-3;
  Wedderburne, anecdote of, ii. 430;
  mentioned, i. 243, 303, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1, 282, 310. 
STRAHAN, Mrs. (wife of William Strahan),
  Johnson’s letters to her, iv. 100, 140;
  mentioned, i. 212. 
STRAHAN, William, junior, death, iv. 100. 
STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, v. 225.
Stranger, The, iv. 244, n. 1. 
STRATAGEM, iii. 275, 324, n. 3. 
STRATFORD-ON-AVON,
  Boswell and Johnson drink tea there, ii. 453;
  Jubilee, ii. 68;
  Shakespeare’s mulberry-tree, ii. 470.
Stratford Jubilee, The, ii. 471. 
STRATICO, Professor, i. 371. 
STRAW, balancing a, iii. 231.
Straw, beating his, ii. 374. 
STREATHAM,
  Church, Thrale’s monument, iv. 85, n. 1;
    Johnson’s farewell, iv. 159;
  Common, ii. 72, n. 1;
  Thrale’s Villa, Boswell’s first visit to it, ii. 77;
    visit in 1778, iii. 225;
    dining-room, iii. 348;
      luxurious dinners, iii. 423, n. 1;
    Johnson gives a bible to one of the maids, iii. 247;
      ‘home,’ i. 493, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6, 451;
      laboratory, iii. 398, n. 3;
      last dinner, iv. 159, n. 1;