BIB_ID
379512
Accession number
MA 981.12
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1763 Aug. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 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 his last letter, which was "from a man in that dejection of spirits which both [Temple] and [Boswell] are unhappily subject to"; noting that it should be a "constant solace" that "true friendship such as [theirs], will ever last, and will ever render [them] sensible to each other's distress of every kind"; hoping that Temple's affairs "will be settled in such a way that [he will] be able to live comfortably"; adding that he is planning to leave in the morning; informing him that he has "been a great deal with Mr. [Samuel] Johnson of late," and Johnson "insists on seeing [him] sail and has actually taken a place in the Coach, to accompany [Boswell] to Harwich"; thanking him for the "present of [William] Mason's Poems"; noting that he is leaving his copy of [Thomas] Gray's poems for Temple.
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