2;
    Whitefield, ii. 79, n. 4;
    Wilkes, iii. 64, n. 3; v. 339, n. 5;
  letters:  see CORRESPONDENCE;
  letters, reasons for inserting his own, v. 16;
  Liberty and Necessity, troubled by, iv. 71;
  Lichfield, visits in 1776, ii. 461;
    shown real ‘civility’ there, iii. 77;
    visits it in 1779, iii. 411;
  life, reflections on, iii. 164-6;
  Life of Johnson, additions to it, i. 10;
    Advertisement of it in the Tour to the Hebrides, v. 421;
    cancels, i. 520; ii. 2, n. 1;
    delayed by dissipation, i. 5, n. 2;
    Johnson approves of him as his biographer, i. 26; ii. 166, 217;
iii. 196; v. 312;
    ‘claws,’ would not cut off his, i. 30, n. 4;
    death and character, how to describe his, iv. 399, n. 1;
    mode in which it is written, i. 30, n. 1;
    ‘new kind of libel,’ iv. 30, n. 2;
    printed by H. Baldwin:  see BALDWIN;
    Odyssey, like the, i. 12;
    progress and sale, i. 9, n. 3 and 10; iv. 399, n. 1;
    translated, never, v. 3, n. 1;
  likes, a man whom everybody, iii. 362;
  Literary Club, a member of the, i. 478, n. 3, 481, n. 3;
    proposed by Johnson, ii. 235; v. 76;
    elected, ii. 240;
    Johnson’s charge, ib.;
    how he got in, v. 76;
    for meetings:  see CLUBS, Literary;
  lodgings, his London, Downing Street, i. 422;
    Farrar’s Buildings, i. 437, 463. n. 3;
    Half-Moon Street, ii. 46, n. 2; 59;
    Old Bond Street, ii. 82;
    Conduit Street, ii. 166;
    Piccadilly, 219;
    Gerrard Street, iii. 51, n. 3;
    General Paoli’s in South Audley Street, iii. 35, 324;
    Inner Temple Lane, chambers in, iii. 179, n. 1;
  London, expedition to it highly improving, ii. 311, n. 1;
    increased spirits there, iii. 246;
    Johnson consulted about a visit to it, ii. 275-7;
      agrees to his removing to it, iv. 351;
  love of it, i. 463; ii. 275; iii. 5, 176, 363;
  London, visits, in 1760, i. 385;
    1762-3, i. 385-464;
    1766, ii. 4-15;
    1768, ii. 46-66;
    1769, ii. 68-111;
    1772, ii. 146-200;
    1773, ii. 209-263;
    1775, ii. 311-377;
    1776, ii. 427-475, iii. 1-80;
    (in 1777 Boswell met Johnson in Ashbourne, iii. 135-208);
    1778, iii. 222-359;
    1779, spring, iii. 373-394;
      autumn, iii. 400-411;
    1781, iv. 71-118;
    1783, iv. 164-226;
    1784 (sets out in March but turns back at York, iv. 265), 271-339;
  Lonsdale, pays court to Lord, ii. 10, n. 1;
    brutality, suffers from, ii. 179, n. 3;
  looks forward to his future worth, ii. 58, n. 3;
  loose life, his, ii. 46, n. 1, 47, n. 2, 58, n. 3, 170, 352, n. 1;
  manners, want of, ii. 475;
  manuscripts, his, destroyed by his executors, iii. 301, n. 1; 344, n. 1;
v. 30, n. 2;
  marriage, approaching, ii. 68, 70, 76, 110;
    takes place, ii. 140;