BIB_ID
379507
Accession number
MA 981.7
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1763 July 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.1 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 on Wednesday evening he dined with [Samuel] Johnson, [George] Dempster, and Dr. [John] Boswell; describing a second dinner with Johnson at which he was "extremely entertaining and instructive."
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