BIB_ID
379731
Accession number
MA 981.44
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1770 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 29.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple / at Gainslaw / near / 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
Telling him that he has not written sooner because his "Uncle Commissioner Cochrane has been very ill" and he has "been frequently with him"; commenting on how much he enjoyed Temple's visit and remarking, "We must really contrive it so, as to pass a good part of our time together"; praising his wife: "I am fully sensible of my happiness in being married to so excellent a woman, so sensible a Mistress of a family, so agreable [sic] a companion, and above all so affectionate and peculiarly proper [a] helpmate for me"; informing him that he and his wife "intend to set out on Monday for Ayrshire" to visit her sisters and Auchinleck.
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