BIB_ID
379848
Accession number
MA 981.58
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 Oct. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 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
Expressing uneasiness that he has not heard from Temple; annoucing that his "wife was safely delivered of a son"; adding, "my wife was very ill in her labour, but is in a good way; & the Child appears to be as well as we could wish."
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