BIB_ID
379596
Accession number
MA 981.21
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. 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
Complaining that Temple has not written to him "for near a fortnight"; reporting that he received "a most agreable [sic] letter" from Miss Blair and promising to send the letter when he hears from Temple again.
Catalog link
Department