BIB_ID
379595
Accession number
MA 981.20
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Aug. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend Mr. Temple / at / 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
Congratulating Temple on his recent marriage; noting that Temple has "removed half [his] apprehensions" about marriage, and he supposes he will "likewise by & by experience the agreable [sic] union"; complaining that Miss Blair has not answered his last two letters; reporting that his "present unhappy distemper joined with a cold, brought on a most terrible fever"; adding that he is now recovering; noting that his mistress has not developed any symptoms of his venereal disease; sending news of shared acquaintances.
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