BIB_ID
379619
Accession number
MA 981.25
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Sept. 22.
Credit line
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 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
Expressing concern that he has not heard from Temple since sending him "a Packet by the Berwick Carrier"; asking him to try to track down the packet if he has not received it; noting that he wrote to Miss Blair "in a style more and more as [Temple] would wish"; adding that he received a letter from "Sir James Stewart, in answer to one which [he] wrote to him with regard to a passage in his Political Oeconomy which is injurious to the Corsicans"; commenting on a "Specimen of a Tour to the East by Lord Baltimore just published."
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