Putting the Life on line: The Yale editions on the World Wide Web

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Our patron, Gordon Turnbull, General Editor of the Yale Boswell Editions, sends us from New Haven, Connecticut some of the latest news on the great collection, much of which is now being scanned and some of which is already available on line on the internet:

Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which houses the vast Boswell Collection, has embarked on a series of scans of selected Boswellian materials, and some of these treasures are now available online.

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Our logo, reproduced by kind permission of leading Australian cartoonist and print-maker John Spooner, was inspired by the following anecdote, attributed to Carruthers, and printed as a footnote in the 1936 edition of Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides, the first to be based on the then recently-discovered Boswell Papers at Malahide castle:

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Patron: Dr Gordon Turnbull, General Editor, Private Papers of  James Boswell, Yale University President: Barrie Sheppard Vice President: Dennis Dorwick Secretary: Ian Keese Southern Johnsonian Editor: Ian Keese Treasurer:  Donna…

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