BIB_ID
379861
Accession number
MA 981.60
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1775 Nov. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 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 trace of a 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Congratulating Temple on the prospect of "the best living in the Diocese of Exeter"; proposing that they visit "some part of the continent" together, "which by the by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson has done lately with Mr. [Henry] and Mrs. [Hester] Thrale"; wishing he could see Johnson's "account of his peregrination in Gaul"; expressing pleasure that Temple is "making good progress" on his "Essays"; reporting that his wife is recovering well and his son "has been a little unlucky" but should improve now that they have hired a new wet nurse; writing, "Dr. Johnson has said nothing to me of my Remarks during my Journey with him which I wish to write. Shall I task myself to write so much of them a week and send to you for revisal? If I do not publish them now, they will be good materials for my Life of Dr. Johnson."
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