BIB_ID
379890
Accession number
MA 981.65
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1787 Jan. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
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
Sending his "sincerest sympathy and prayers" [possibly in response to the death of Temple's son (Boswell's godson)?]; explaining that he is writing a short letter because he has to dine with Sir Joshua Reynolds and "the Laureate."
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