BIB_ID
379822
Accession number
MA 981.55
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 June 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 23 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
Hoping they will write to each other frequently over the summer; noting that he has seen David Hume several times and sharing some "little anecdotes of him"; repeating Hume's observations about Abbé Raynal; mentioning Sir Alexander Dick, [Edmund] Burke, Sir John Pringle, and others; discussing Great Britain's relation with the American colonies; speaking of his wish to "be a man of consequence in the state"; telling him that Hume and [Henry Home,] Lord Kames "joined in attacking Dr. [Samuel] Johnson to an absurd pitch"; remarking that his"Father is most unhappily dissatisfied with" him, "did not salute" his wife, and "harps on [his] going over Scotland with 'a Brute' [Samuel Johnson] (think how shockingly erroneous) and wandering (or some such phrase) to London"; adding, "I allways dread his making some bad settlement."
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