BIB_ID
131289
Accession number
MA 981.105
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1820?] Apr. 25.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "James Boswell Esq."
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 seal.
Year is based on Scott's reference to Boswell's "Shakespeare," which was published in 1821.
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 seal.
Year is based on Scott's reference to Boswell's "Shakespeare," which was published in 1821.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Discussing this history of Scottish archery; reporting that he "was in very poor health for about a twelvemonth, with spasmodic attacks in the stomach, but [is] now beginning to feel like [him]self again"; expressing his delight that Boswell's "Shakespeare is to go to press."
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