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Walter Urie

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Urie was Boswell's man-servant for the greater part of his Harvest Jaunt, 1762. He is mentioned on October 22, 1762, when Boswell writes that "[m]y boy is now wanted by his master, so I sent him home upon my brown mare. His name is Walter Urie, a young well-looked lad, a little simple, but very honest, sober, and careful. I told him that he had been a very good servant, and gave him half a guinea, which made him happy".

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Walter Urie is mentioned in:

  • Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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