BIB_ID
127924
Accession number
MA 981.95
Creator
Boswell, James, 1778-1822.
Display Date
1795 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.8 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.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Reporting that his father was "taken ill with a fever, attended with a severe shivering and violent headache, disorder in his stomach and throwing up" and has been "confined to bed ever since"; promising that his father will send him "a long and full letter" soon.
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