2010. In her short story "The Monboddo Ape Boy", Lillian de la Torre depicted a slightly fictionalised Monboddo meeting Samuel Johnson, and being presented with a supposed "wild boy". Writings Publications Preface to "Advertisement" to John Brown, Letters upon the Poetry and Music of the Italian Opera, Addressed to a Friend (Edinburgh and London, Bell & Bradshute and C. Elliot and T. Kay, 1789) "Reports of Decisions of the Court of Session, 1738–68" in A Supplement to The Dictionary of Decisions of the Court of Session, ed. M. P. Brown (5 volumes, Edinburgh, J. Bell & W. Creech, 1826), volume 5, pp. 651–941 Correspondence James Burnett to James Harris, 31 December 1772 James Burnett to Sir John Pringle, 16 June 1773 James Burnett to James Boswell, 11 April and 28 May 1777, Yale University Boswell Papers, (C.2041 and C.2042) James Burnett to William Jones, 20 June 1789 James Burnett to T. Cadell and J. Davies, 15 May 1796, British Museum, A letter bound into Dugald Stewart, Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, D.D., F.R.S.E, 2nd ed., London (1802). Shelf no.1203.f.3 References Further reading 1714 births 1799 deaths 18th-century Scottish writers Age of Enlightenment Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British naturists Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard Enlightenment philosophers People from Aberdeenshire People from Kincardine and Mearns People of the Scottish Enlightenment Proto-evolutionary biologists Scottish anthropologists Scottish linguists Scottish non-fiction writers Scottish philosophers Monboddo