BIB_ID
125276
Accession number
MA 981.109
Creator
Nicholls, Norton, 1742 -1809.
Display Date
1779 Nov. 3.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. Mr. Temple / St. Gluvias / Penryn / Cornwall."
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 postmark and 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 postmark and seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Remarking that he saw Boswell several times while he was touring Scotland, and noting that "his friendly, obliging disposition atones for all that is not quite as one would wish in him"; speaking critically of Dr. [William] Robertson, but admitting that he "took a little prejudice against him for blaming [William] Mason's publication, for not seeming to relish [Thomas] Gray's letters, & for saying that when he saw Mr. Gray in Scotland he gave him the idea of a person who meant to pass for a very fine gentleman"; describing a visit to Hopetoun House; mentioning [Henry Home,] Lord Kames.
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