BIB_ID
157677
Accession number
MA 22802
Creator
Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1799 June 30.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.2 x 18.5 cm
Notes
This letter was removed from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby." Other letters from the volumes are now catalogued as MA 981.1-109.
Summary
Enclosing a copy of his correspondence with Archibald Gray (no longer with the letter); writing "He is lurking somewhere in the West of Scotland. - If after a month he persists in declining to come forward, I am clear that a Reward should be offered for his Discovery."
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