Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus in the Federated History Department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He has published widely on topics relating to eighteenth-century Scotland, including The Enlightenment and the Book (2006), Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment (2nd ed., 2015), and many articles, book chapters, and edited volumes.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of Correspondence Editorial Procedures Cue Titles and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction The Correspondence Appendices The Family of Sir William Forbes of PitsligoSir William Forbes’s Courtship of Elizabeth Hay, 1770Boswell, Johnson, Forbes, and the Quarrel with ‘Young Mr. Tytler’, October–December 1785Boswell and the Newspaper War over Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Resignation as President of the Royal Academy, 1790Index

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus in the Federated History Department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He has published widely on topics relating to eighteenth-century Scotland, including The Enlightenment and the Book (2006), Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment (2nd ed., 2015), and many articles, book chapters, and edited volumes.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of Correspondence Editorial Procedures Cue Titles and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction The Correspondence Appendices The Family of Sir William Forbes of PitsligoSir William Forbes’s Courtship of Elizabeth Hay, 1770Boswell, Johnson, Forbes, and the Quarrel with ‘Young Mr. Tytler’, October–December 1785Boswell and the Newspaper War over Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Resignation as President of the Royal Academy, 1790Index

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus in the Federated History Department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He has published widely on topics relating to eighteenth-century Scotland, including The Enlightenment and the Book (2006), Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment (2nd ed., 2015), and many articles, book chapters, and edited volumes.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of Correspondence Editorial Procedures Cue Titles and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction The Correspondence Appendices The Family of Sir William Forbes of PitsligoSir William Forbes’s Courtship of Elizabeth Hay, 1770Boswell, Johnson, Forbes, and the Quarrel with ‘Young Mr. Tytler’, October–December 1785Boswell and the Newspaper War over Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Resignation as President of the Royal Academy, 1790Index