BIB_ID
379635
Accession number
MA 981.28
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 31.2 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
Describing the end of his courtship of Miss Blair; writing, "Wish me joy ... of having discovered the snake before it was too late. I should have been ruined, had I made such a woman my wife. Luckily for me a neighbour who came to Auchinleck last night told me that he had heard three people at Ayr agree in abusing her as a d---nd Jilt"; swearing off "Scots Lass[es]" and hoping "to find an Englishwoman who will be sensible of [his] merit"; remarking that his mistress in Edinburgh also caught his venereal disease and is expecting his child "in a fortnight"; commenting on his relationship with his father; thanking him for his "remarks on [his] Corsican Journal."
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