BIB_ID
379691
Accession number
MA 981.34
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1768 Apr. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 21.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple / Rector of Mamhead / near Chudleigh / Devon."
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
Reporting that his father is "quite against the scheme" of Boswell's proposing to "the fair and lively Zelide" [Belle de Zeylun, his love interest in Utrecht]; confessing that since coming to London he has "been as wild as ever" and is "suffering justly for [his] conduct"; asking if he has received the book he sent to him; proposing that he come to visit Temple; suggesting the "healthy young amiable Miss Dick" as a marriage prospect..
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