Letters, 1775-1783.

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Letters, 1775-1783.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85213465

This collection consists of six letters from Flora Macleod Mure-Campbell to her mother (including one which mentions James Boswell); one letter concerning her death by her mother; and her sister's marriage contract.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8332552

Houghton Library

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Macleod, Jean Macqueen,

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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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James Boswell (1740-1795) was the author of one of the most influential biographies in the English language, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He also wrote two successful travel books: An Account of Corsica, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. He worked intermittently as a lawyer, and in 1782 succeeded his father as Laird of Auchinleck in Scotland. From the description of James Boswell letters, 1762-1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612839330 Boswell wa...

Mure-Campbell, Flora Macleod, d. 1780.

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Flora Macleod was the daughter of John Macleod and Jean Macqueen Macleod of Raasay, Scotland, near the Island of Skye. She was mentioned several times in the diaries of James Boswell. Boswell introduced her to writer Samuel Johnson during their 1773 tour of the Hebrides. Johnson called her "the princess," and described her as "the beauty of this part of the world, and has been polished at Edinburgh" (letters to Hester Thrale, 1773 Sept. 14 and Sept. 24, MS Hyde 1, item 93). In 1777, she married ...