BIB_ID
379600
Accession number
MA 981.23
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Aug. 29.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple / Berwick 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 trace of a 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Writing that he feels "great satisfaction" at Temple's "prospect of happiness in a married state"; observing, "we have a strange custom of looking upon [marriage] as something quite mysterious, and have therefore twice as many apprehensions as we need have; for I do say we must have some apprehensions when engaging to have a fidelity and common interest for life"; asking Temple, "Tell me can I honestly ask so fine a Woman to risque her happiness with a Man of my character"; speculating that "mext month will probably fix [their] alliance which may be compleated next year."
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