Samuel Johnson James Boswell

Connection to This Location
# 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden Standing before this modest townhouse in Covent Garden, you're at the precise threshold where one of literature's most consequential friendships began. On a May evening in 1763, James Boswell, a ambitious young Scottish lawyer seeking connection to London's intelle...
Location
8 Russell Street, WC2
Inscription
In this house occupied by Thomas Davies bookseller Dr. Samuel Johnson first met James Boswell in 1763