BIB_ID
379506
Accession number
MA 981.6
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1763 July 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.3 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
Commenting on a letter from Temple's father that he opened and read; speaking of the financial hardships Temple is facing: "You have indeed My friend been very unfortunate at your entry into life; but your bad fortune has served as a touchstone to try your Virtue, of the power of which neither your friends nor even yourself could be so fully convinced had Prosperity beamed upon you with unclouded ray"; mentioning "Bob" and his trip "to Salisbury to attend the Assises"; describing a visit to [Samuel] Johnson's "garret up four pair of Stairs."
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