London Journal

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James Boswell's London Journal is a published version of the daily journal he kept between the years 1762 and 1763 while in London. Along with many more of his private papers, it was found in the 1920s at Malahide Castle in Ireland, and first published in 1950. In it, Boswell, then a young Scottish man of 22, visits London for his second time. The most notable event in the journal is Boswell's meeting Samuel Johnson, the famous writer, moralist, and lexicographer whom Boswell would form a close relationship with and eventually write the biography of in his Life of Johnson.