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Autograph letter signed with initials : Grantham, to [William Johnson] Temple, 1775 May 22.

BIB_ID
379815
Accession number
MA 981.52
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 May 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.9 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
Apologizing for "neglecting to speak to Davies about Muratori"; complaining to him that "Harry Dundas is going to be made King's Advocate" despite being "a coarse, unlettered, unfanciful dog"; mentioning that he breakfasted with [Pasquale] Paoli and dined "tete a tete with [his] charming Mrs. Stuart"; describing his activities with [Samuel] Johnson and adding that Johnson is "to buy for [him] a chest of books of his chusing off stalls, & [Boswell is] to read more & drink less."