BIB_ID
379599
Accession number
MA 981.22
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.3 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
Sending him papers related to his courtship of Miss Blair; worrying that he used a Scots word "as a good English word, not having looked Johnson" [Samuel Johnson's dictionary]; reporting that his health is improving.
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