BIB_ID
379863
Accession number
MA 981.61
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1776 Apr. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.6 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
Writing of Bath, "I am now for the first time at this most elegant City which far exceeds my expectations"; remarking that he finally determined to visit Bath because"Dr. [Samuel] Johnson" and "Mr. [Henry] & Mrs. [Hester] Thrale" were there; telling him that he is travelling to Bristol with Dr. Johnson tomorrow; expressing regret that he does not have time to visit Temple at Mamhead; promising to help in "ushering [Temple's] volumes into the World"; commenting on [Edward] Gibbon's Decline and Fall and [Adam] Smith's Wealth of Nations; noting that he was "really growing a drunkard" but is now trying "not [to] taste fermented liquor for a year, that [he] may recover sobriety"; reporting that David Hume is said to be dying; stating that he has "collected a good many Memorabilia [Pasquale] Paoli this season."
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