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Title: Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763)

Author: James Boswell, Andrew Erskine and George Dempster

Release Date: May 18, 2005 [EBook #15857]

Language: English

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JAMES BOSWELL, ANDREW ERSKINE, and GEORGE DEMPSTER

_Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira,
Written by Mr. David Malloch_

(1763)

With an Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle

Publication Number 35

Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1952

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GENERAL EDITORS

H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_
RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_
ROBERT S. KINSMAN, _University of California, Los Angeles_
JOHN LOFTIS, _University of California, Los Angeles_

ASSISTANT EDITOR

W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_

ADVISORY EDITORS

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_
BENJAMIN BOYCE, _Duke University_
LOUIS BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_
EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_
LOUIS A. LANDA, _Princeton University_
SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_
ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_
JAMES SUTHERLAND, _University College, London_
H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

EDNA C. DAVIS, _Clark Memorial Library_

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INTRODUCTION

"WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY [1763]. This was a day eagerly expected by Dempster,
Erskine, and I, as it was fixed as the period of our gratifying