BIB_ID
106084
Accession number
MA 981.100
Creator
Boswell, Alexander, Sir, 1775-1822.
Display Date
1821 Oct. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Alexander Maconochie-Welwood, Lord Meadowbank may be the recipient because he was the judge who presided over Allan Carswell's trial in 1821.
Part of a large collection of letters from James Boswell to William Johnson Temple and related correspondence. Letters have been described in individual records; see MA 981 for details.
Part of a large collection of letters from James Boswell to William Johnson Temple and related correspondence. Letters have been described in individual records; see MA 981 for details.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Discussing the trial of Allan Carswell, for which Boswell was foreman of the jury; expressing his relief that "mercy has been extended to Allan Carsewell"; writing, "on my oath I was bound to pronounce the man guilty, but under all the circumstances, if this man had been executed, no fine or punishment which the Law could inflict would ever have again compelled me to act as a Juryman and subject me to such a painful duty."
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