Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [William Johnson] Temple, 1761 May 1.

Chiding him for thinking that his silence meant that his "esteem for [Temple] was in the smallest degree abated"; complaining about being forced to live in Edinburgh and study law after becoming used to the "delights" of London; referring to his "Father's strict family"; asking what Temple means by the insinuation that he [Boswell] is "indelicate in the choice of [his] female friends"; admitting that "last summer [he] went to a house of recreation in this place, & catch'd a Tartar too, with a vengeance"; remarking, "I hope you don't call passing some hours with an infamous creature -- when hurried on by the heat of youth -- a connection"; adding that this season he has "never been, nor [does he] intend again to be a Guest in the mansions of gross sensuality."