[Footnote 4: _European Magazine_, 1798, p. 376.] [Footnote 5: For an account of Lord Lonsdale _v._ Sir George Trevelyan's _Life of Fox_.] [Footnote 6: Or possibly at the end of 1787--_v._ Nichols' _Illustrations_, vii. 310. The _Dictionary of National Biography_ gives 1790, and Dr. Rogers 1789. But Bishop Percy's letter of congratulation (printed in Nichols) was dated 1788. The year is undoubtedly correct, for it refers to a letter of Boswell's dated Feb. 9, 1788, and in this letter Boswell speaks of the forthcoming publication of Johnson's letters to Mrs. Piozzi, which were published actually in 1788.] [Footnote 7: _Letters to Temple_, pp. 268-9.] [Footnote 8: _Life of Johnson_, iv. 265.] [Footnote 9: Fitzgerald's _Life of Boswell_, II, 16.] [Footnote 10: _Letters to Temple_, p. 244.] [Footnote 11: _Ib._, p. 244.] [Footnote 12: _Ib._, p. 249.] [Footnote 13: _Gentleman's Magazine_, June 1795, and _Nichols' Literary Anecdotes_, ii, pp. 400-2.] [Footnote 14: _Letters to Temple_, p. 29.] [Footnote 15: _Ib._, p. 43.] [Footnote 16: _Ib._, p. 190, and _Tour to Corsica_.] [Footnote 17: _Letters to Temple._] [Footnote 18: March 3, 1778.] [Footnote 19: _Letters to Temple_, p. 88.] [Footnote 20: _Letters to Temple_, p. 162.] [Footnote 21: _Ib._, p. 158.] [Footnote 22: _Ib._, p. 63.] [Footnote 23: _Letters to Temple_, p. 148.] [Footnote 24: _Ib._, p. 4.] [Footnote 25: _Life of Johnson_, iv, 122.] [Footnote 26: _Letters to Temple_, p. 20.] [Footnote 27: _Ib._, p. 195.] [Footnote 28: _Ib._, p. 148.] [Footnote 29: _Ib._, p. 24.] [Footnote 30: _Ib._, p. 127.] [Footnote 31: _Diary of Madame D'Arblay_, i, p. 509.] [Footnote 32: _Ireland's Confessions_, pp. 95-6.] [Footnote 33: Prior's _Life of Goldsmith_, i, 449-50.] [Footnote 34: _Taylor's Records_, vol. i, 89, 90.] [Footnote 35: Fitzgerald's _Life of Boswell_, ii, 73-8.] [Footnote 36: Fitzgerald's _Life of Boswell_, ii, 76.] [Footnote 37: _Life of Johnson_, ii, 318.] [Footnote 38: Prior's _Life of Goldsmith_, i, 452-3.] [Footnote 39: _Letters to Temple_, p. 165.] [Footnote 40: _Life of Johnson_, ii, 95.] CHAPTER VII Nothing in Boswell's life became him so well as his second important publication, 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.' The event took place in 1785, not many months after Johnson's death, and less than twelve years after the eventful journey when Johnson was displayed to his biographer's countrymen. The 'Tour' has already been mentioned here as an episode in Boswell's remarkable friendship. It was an episode, besides, in Boswell's life; it decided his destiny.