BIB_ID
379756
Accession number
MA 981.48
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 Apr. [4].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 33.4 cm
Notes
Day is illegible; the 4th is based on the 1857 printed version of the letter.
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.
Pieces of the paper are missing with some loss of text.
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.
Pieces of the paper are missing with some loss of text.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Reporting that his "mind formerly a wild has been for some years pretty well enclosed with moral fences," and he is finding these fences "better than [he] thought them" because he is managing to resist the temptation of "Concubinage" in London; telling him that Temple's "character of [Thomas] Gray" has been printed in the London Magazine and appears "as the Peroration of [William] Mason's Life of Gray"; encouraging Temple to write and publish more; discussing all his dining engagements in London and mentioning Sir Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Sir John Pringle, etc.
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