BIB_ID
107159
Accession number
MA 981.101
Creator
Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789.
Display Date
1787 Aug. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Miss Euphemia Boswell / Great Queens Street / London."
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.
With trace of a seal.
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.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Complaining about the cost of Euphemia's last letter to her because it was left at the post office at a date before the date of the frank; instructing her not to "send any newer papers under Mr. Ward's cover"; discussing Euphemia's accommodations; commenting on a large dinner she attended; mentioning Euphemia's younger siblings, James and Betsy.
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