BIB_ID
379510
Accession number
MA 981.10
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1763 July 27.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22 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
Expressing his concerns about Temple's brother [Bob] and offering an analysis of his temperment and character; worrying that "too quick a rise while he is so very young, might do him harm"; remarking that he is glad Bob has gone to Cambridge because this "removes him from the dissipation & Vice which Idleness is apt to drive a Young Man to, in a Metropolis"; advising him to "establish [Bob] in sollid notions of religion & morality."
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