BIB_ID
379702
Accession number
MA 981.38
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1768 Dec. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 30.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple."
Endorsed.
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.
Endorsed.
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
Sending encouraging words about Temple's financial situation; wishing him joy of his son and agreeing to be the boy's godfather; telling him that [David] "Hume is not to go to Paris"; advising him against "leav[ing his] family," and writing, "do not allow yourself to suppose that Lord L. will do nothing more for you"; reporting that Miss Blair's marriage to another man has been "broken off"; explaining that he has been visiting Miss Blair again and "the old flame was kindled," but she has said that 'really she had a very great regard for [him], but did not like [him] so as to marry [him]"; referring to the Irish woman ("sweet Marianne") he hopes to marry and announcing that he plans to go to Ireland in March; ending by stating that he is "just now a good deal in debt" and would need to know "some weeks before" if Temple "want[s] any credit" from him.
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