BIB_ID
106141
Accession number
MA 3157.1
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1768 April 18.
Credit line
Purchased, 1971.
Description
1 item (12 pages) ; 22.2 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Housed with an autograph letter signed with initial to Sir Alexander Dick dated, in a penciled note in an unknown hand, 1767 August 31 (see MA 3157.2).
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1971.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in detail, the genealogy of the Dick family; saying that Lady Dick "made me a present of the most elegant sword I ever saw, Steel richly carved and embossed & gilt, in short quite the princely sword for the Laird of Auchinleck. It will delight you to see it when we meet. I will come and strut at Prestonfield while Miss Dick plays Carrickfergus. Pray tell her that when I heard the Song "Quel che d'amore &c at the opera, it made me think myself quite at home again. Let me know what musick she wants that I may bring it down. I insist upon this, as it is laying up entertainment for myself on those Saturdays which I relish so much after a weeks drudgery at the law. She has La Buona Figliola But has she La Buona Figliola Maritata? I am sure she has not La Moglie Fedele. I beg she may tell me freely what she wants;" adding news of mutual friends he has seen in London.
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