BIB_ID
379843
Accession number
MA 981.57
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple."
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 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 seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Describing his visit to his father as time "not ... very happily spent"; discussing his relationship with his father: "My father ... is so different from me ... that I am often hurt, when I dare say he means no harm, and he has a method of treating me, which makes me feel myself like a timid boy, which to Boswell ... is intollerable"; complaining about his father's new wife as "narrow minded" and "set upon keeping [his father] totally under her own management"; worring about whether any of his father's wealth and land will pass to his wife and children.
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