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A Chronology of Boswell's Movements in the Netherlands
1763
August
| Saturday 6: Boswell sets sail from Harwich ‘on board the Prince of Wales packet-boat’Ga naar eind36. |
| Sunday 7: Boswell arrives at Hellevoetsluis ‘at twelve at noon’ and travels to Rotterdam (BH, 5) |
| Wednesday 10: Goes to Leiden, where he ‘passed some days’ (BH, 5) |
| Saturday 13: Travels ‘between Leyden and Utrecht nine hours in sluggish trek schuit without any companion’ (BH, 6) |
| Monday 15: Returns to Rotterdam (BH, 6), and between then and 22 August visits Gouda, Amsterdam and Haarlem (BH, 10) |
| Monday 22: In Amsterdam |
| Tuesday 23: Travels to Utrecht |
| Friday 26: Goes to Leiden |
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September
| Friday 2: In Rotterdam |
| Monday 5: Travels to Gouda, and then takes a ‘schuit to Utrecht’ (BH, 19) |
| Sunday 11: Goes to Rotterdam |
| Thursday 15: Returns to Utrecht |
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October and November: In Utrecht
December
| Monday 19: Travels to Leiden (BH, 93) |
| Tuesday 20: Goes to The Hague, where he spends Christmas and the New Year (BH, 93-112) |
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January
| Friday 6: Travels to Leiden (BH, 113) |
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| Monday 9: Goes to Rotterdam, arriving ‘at half after one’ (BH, 114) |
| Monday 16: Visits Gouda, Bodegraven and returns to Utrecht (BH, 116) |
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February and March: In Utrecht
April
| Sunday 8: Makes a trip to Amersfoort |
| Wednesday 18: Travels to Leiden (BH, 222) |
| Thursday 19: Goes to The Hague for the Easter vacation (BH, 223) |
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May
| Tuesday 1: Returns to Utrecht (BH, 230) |
| Saturday 5: Travels to The Hague, and takes a coach to Scheveningen (BH, 233) |
| Sunday 6: Makes a trip to Delft |
| Thursday 10: Goes to Scheveningen (BH, 235) |
| Monday 14: Leaves The Hague, and travels to Leiden; takes night boat back to Utrecht (BH, 238) |
| Tuesday 15: Arrives in Utrecht |
| Friday 25: Takes the night boat to Amsterdam (BH, 235) |
| Monday 27: Takes the night boat back to Utrecht (BH, 255) |
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June
| Friday 1: Takes the night boat to The Hague (arriving at 9 a.m.); ‘at twelve’ travels in a coach by way of Delft to Rotterdam (BH, 258-59) |
| Saturday 2: Takes a schuit to Delft and then a chariot to The Hague (BH, 260) |
| Wednesday 6: Takes the schuit to Leiden, and the night boat back to Utrecht (BH, 266) |
| Monday 18: Travels to Nijmegen ‘in a coach and four’ (BH, 282) |
| Tuesday 19: Leaves Holland for Germany (Kleve and Wesel) |
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Boswell in Holland, 4: where possible page references and occasional quotations are given from this volume (BH) to support the details of Boswell's movements in the Netherlands. However, some of his movements are not recorded in that volume, and these are taken from a chronology supplied with the Yale transcript and translation of Boswell's MS (see ‘On the Dutch Text and the English Translation’, page xxix above).
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