'When Adam Smith Met Dr. Samuel Johnson'
Source Of Anecdote

From The Life Of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., ed. John Wilson Croker, v (1844), 114-115 n. This was one of Scott's contributions to Croker's edition of Boswell's Life. Croker added, however, that he disbelieved the story, and that it 'was reported here for the sake of contradiction'.