BIB_ID
379711
Accession number
MA 981.41
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1770 June 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 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
Sending him [Robert] Henry's "Preface to his History as a Prospectus or Plan of the Work"; discussing a "good definition of History"; mentioning that his father is in town and they are "at present on very good terms"; writing of his father's new wife, "I do not as yet see any appearance of her multiplying."
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