Introduction
Taking charge of Boswell (1763)
"Perpetual friendship"? (1764-1767)
Jostling for control (1768-1771)
New collaborations (1772)
Embracing the biographer (1772-1773)
Cooperation and rivalry in Scotland (14 August to 22 November 1773)
Negotiating and competing for narrative control (14 August to 22 November 1773)
Collaboration manqué (November 1773 to May 1775)
Renegotiating the friendship, part 1 (1775-1777): depression, defiance, and dependency
Renegotiating the friendship, part 2 (1777-1778): confrontation, collaboration, and celebration
"Strangers to each other" (May 1778 to March 1781)
The lives of the poets and Johnson's (auto)biography (1777-1781)
Reconnecting (1781-1783)
"Some time together before we are parted" (March 1783 to May 1784)
"Love me as well as you can" (1784)
Rewriting the Hebrides trip (1785)
Boswell claiming his inheritance (1786-1791)
Winning Johnson's blessing.