BIB_ID
379609
Accession number
MA 981.24
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 23.5 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
Commenting on his difficult relationship with his father and sending Temple a letter from Mr. Boswell as an example of his father's dissatisfaction with him; wondering whether he is bound to try to make his father happy "at the expence of [him]self"; discussing a book about the Corsicans by Sir James Steuart; noting that he will correct Steuart's mistakes in his own "Account of Corsica"; telling him that he plans to "throw [him]self at [Miss Blair's] feet" as soon as he is "quite clear of all evil" [i.e. as soon his bout of venereal disease has cleared up].
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