Record ID:
118049
Accession number:
MA 981.106
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "The Revd. Mr. Temple / St. Gluvias, Penryn / Cornwall.
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.
Summary:
Mentioning James Boswell; noting that he saw his brother F[rederick] in town and alluding to the "ill success of his application to the admiralty"; reporting that he saw Shakespeare's Macbeth acted; telling him that he just returned "from seeing the illuminations in honor of the Prince and Princess of Wales" [George IV and Princess Caroline]; adding that "Mr. Boswell is extremely eager to have [him] leave town."
Provenance:
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
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