BIB_ID
379561
Accession number
MA 981.16
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 June 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. William Johnson Temple / Berwic upon Tweed."
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.
With postmark and seal.
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.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Commenting on Temple's plans to marry; discussing his own marriage prospects; noting that his "Italian Angel" is still writing to him; adding that his mistress in Edinburgh ("my late Circe") is pregnant.
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