Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes affectionately says of Dr. Watson, who narrates the tales, "I am lost without my Boswell."
Contents Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica (1879) No Abolition of Slavery The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 (1887) Life of Johnson, Volume 2 (1887) Life of Johnson, Volume 3 (1887) Life of Johnson, Volume 4 (1887) Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791)