BIB_ID
379706
Accession number
MA 981.39
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
ca. 1767 Mar. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 30.9 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.
This postscript is misplaced within the volume and should accompany MA 981.14, an autograph letter signed from Boswell to Temple dated Edinburgh, Feb. 1-Mar. 8.
This postscript is misplaced within the volume and should accompany MA 981.14, an autograph letter signed from Boswell to Temple dated Edinburgh, Feb. 1-Mar. 8.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Stating, "my present misfortune is occasioned by drinking"; asking for advice about his married mistress who has three children.
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