BIB_ID
379715
Accession number
MA 981.42
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1770 Sept. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. William Johnson Temple / Berwick upon Tweed."
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 trace of a 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Informing him that his wife "was on Tuesday last safely delivered of a son; but the poor child had suffered so much, that he did not live above two hours"; asking him to write as he has "much need of [his] comfort"; mentioning Temple's visit.
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