BIB_ID
379509
Accession number
MA 981.9
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1763 July 26.
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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
Noting that the state of Temple's affairs gives him "very great concern"; remarking that Temple's father's "indolence & even inattention ... is very great"; advising him to write to his father again to "represent to him how severe it is upon [Temple], to remain in this uncertain Situation, and beseech him to exert himself, so as to get matters settled either one way or another"; discussing his own financial concerns; adding that he was "up all night, writing letters to Scotch Judges & relations."
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