BIB_ID
124471
Accession number
MA 981.104
Creator
Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812.
Display Date
1802 Nov. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
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.
Possible recipient based on note from reader.
Possible recipient based on note from reader.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Concerning Malone's hope of seeing the "Dorset Papers" which are said to contain letters from Shakespeare to the Earl of Dorset; discussing the date of Macbeth, which he believes to be 1606.
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