Day: June 1, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: “The Dr. was in high glee at Auchinleck”

The Hyde Collection of Samuel Johnson holds some 75 letters written by James Boswell, but this just-acquired, previously unpublished letter to Boswell’s brother David perhaps outshines them all. When he wrote to David, then living in Valencia, Spain, in November of 1776, it was his first letter in several years. To one who has such…