BIB_ID
379766
Accession number
MA 981.50
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 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
Discussing Temple's possibilities for advancement within the church; mentioning [Hester] Thrale [later Piozzi]; noting that he has "not written out another line of [his] Remarks on the Hebrides" and thinks that "Dr. Johnson does not seem very desireous that [he] should publish any Supplement": "Between ourselves, he is not apt to encourage one to share reputation with himself"; telling him that Lord Lisburne is sending books to Temple and mentioning [Thomas] Gray; adding that he should send his letters to Edinburgh because he departs for Scotland next week.
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