Record ID:
129219
Accession number:
MA 981.108
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description:
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 21.6 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "Miss Boswell / No. 32 / George St. / Edinburgh."
With postmark and trace of a seal; month and day are from postmark.
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:
Writing that he has been "very busy, as [his] custom is, doing nothing at all, or next to it"; noting that he has "been glad to escape hither to the delicious banks of Windermere"; adding that he doesn't know whether he will go to Paris, London, or Edinburgh next, but he hopes he will have the pleasure of seeing her in Edinburgh.
Provenance:
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
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