BIB_ID
379700
Accession number
MA 981.37
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1768 Aug. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address) ; 30 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple / Mamhead."
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 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 seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Apologizing for his long silence and blaming it on his "gaming"; announcing that he has resolved "never to play at a game of chance, and never at whist but for a trifle to make up a party"; asking if Temple is in "immediate want of money" and promising to send "all that [he] can command" if necessary; mentioning his new love interest, "La belle Irlandoise"; singing her praises but lamenting that she and her family had to return to Ireland; remarking that he may visit her in Ireland in March; reporting that the lady's aunt wrote to him, "Mr. Boswell, I tell you seriously there will be no fear of this succeeding, but from your own inconstancy. Stay till March"; adding that he has adhered to his resolution "not [to] allow [himself] ... licentious connections of any kind for six months" and "already feel[s him]self a superiour being"; discussing the Sicilians and reporting that he is "sending £700 worth of ordinance" by "a private subscription in Scotland"; noting that his brother David has been made a partner in a house at Valencia.
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