BIB_ID
379656
Accession number
MA 981.30
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1767 Dec. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.8 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
Thanking him for his "aid in polishing [Boswell's] Corsican Monument"; discussing his ongoing courtship of Miss Blair; mentioning Miss Blair's cousin, "the beautiful young Duchess of Gordon" [Jane Gordon].
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