BIB_ID
107830
Accession number
MA 981.1-109
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1758 July 29-1821 Oct. 14
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 v. (109 items), bound ; 41.7 cm
Notes
See ARC 3002, a manuscript catalog of this collection.
These letters were removed in 1922 from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby."
These letters were removed in 1922 from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby."
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Collection includes the following: ninety-three letters from James Boswell to William Johnson Temple; a letter from James Boswell to Alexander Dick (MA 981.13); a letter from Sir Alexander Boswell, James Boswell's son, to an unidentified lord (MA 981.100); a letter from Euphemia Boswell, James Boswell's daughter, to an unidentified woman (MA 981.103); three letters from James Boswell, Jr., James Boswell's son, to William Johnson Temple (MA 981.95, 98-99); one letter from Margaret Montgomerie Boswell, James Boswell's wife, to Euphemia Boswell (MA 981.101); three letters from Thomas David Boswell, James Boswell's brother, to William Johnson Temple (MA 981.96-97 and 102); a letter from Edmond Malone to Sir Nathaniel William Wraxhall (MA 981.104); a letter from Norton Nicholls to William Johnson Temple (MA 981.109); a letter from Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, to Euphemia Boswell (MA 981.108); a letter from Sir Walter Scott to James Boswell, Jr. (MA 981.105); and two letters from John J. Temple to his father, William Johnson Temple (MA 981.106-107). Items are described in 109 individual records; see MA 981.1-109 for details.
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