id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5808 James Boswell - Wikipedia .html text/html 4934 552 74 He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary, the English writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.[2][3] A great mass of Boswell's diaries, letters and private papers were recovered from the 1920s to the 1950s, and their ongoing publication by Yale University has transformed his reputation. Boswell returned to London in February 1766 accompanied by Rousseau's mistress, with whom he had a brief affair on the journey home.[7] After spending a few weeks in the capital, he returned to Scotland, buying (or perhaps renting) the former house of David Hume on James Court on the Lawnmarket.[8] He studied for his final law exam at Edinburgh University. ^ James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson, [1992] Everyman ed, p247 ^ Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, Edinburgh 1997, page 140 footnote 4 [1] James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5808.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5808.txt