Saturday 30 July (continued)

We supped at the Turk’s Head. Mr. Johnson said, “I must see thee go; I will go down with you to Harwich.” This prodigious mark of his affection filled me with gratitude and vanity. I gave him an account of the family of Auchinleck, and of the Place. He said, “I must be there, and we will live in the Old Castle; and if there is no room remaining, we will build one.” This was the most pleasing idea that I could possibly have: to think of seeing this great man at the venerable seat of my ancestors. I had been up all night yet was not sleepy.

— From Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763