BIB_ID
379720
Accession number
MA 981.43
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1770 Sept. 6.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. William Johnson Temple / at / Berwick upon Tweed."
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 postmark and trace of a 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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Discussing the death of his child; looking forward to Temple's visit: "how happy will it make me, to have you under my roof, and enjoy with you some invaluable hours of elegant friendship, and classical sociality"; reporting that he is helping John Dalrymple read a French translation of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's La Florida del Inca; noting that [David] Hume is "just now at Sir Gilbert Elliot's Country seat"; telling him that his wife is recovering well.
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