BIB_ID
107037
Accession number
MA 981.13
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1765 May 22.
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Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 26.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Sir Alexander Dick / Prestonfield Baronet / near Edinburgh / Great Britain."
Docketed.
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.
Removed from Boswell's Life of Johnson (extra-illustrated 1791 edition) in 1922.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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.
Removed from Boswell's Life of Johnson (extra-illustrated 1791 edition) in 1922.
With trace of a seal.
Summary
Complimenting the style of Dick's letter: "I cannot think of Sir Alexander Dick without thinking of elegant learning and arts, or the cordial friendship between our familys [sic], and of that easy chearfullness which makes life a blessing"; calling Dick's estate a "Proverb for fertility"; describing his visit to Herculaneum; noting that he "engaged an antiquary" to take him through "a course of antiquitys" [sic] in Rome; wishing that he could spend more time in Rome; reporting that he met one of Dick's cousins in Rome; adding that he has been seeing a lot of Lord Mount Stuart [John Stuart, first marquess of Bute].
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