BIB_ID
379623
Accession number
MA 981.26
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Oct. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.5 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
Sending him the £30 Temple asked to borrow; including a copy of his "Corsican Journal" and asking Temple to "write down on a separate sheet of paper [his] remarks & Corrections"; giving instructions about how to return the manuscript and notes to him; telling him that he goes "west" on Wednesday.
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