BIB_ID
379921
Accession number
MA 981.69
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1789 Mar. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. William Johnson Temple / Gluvias Vicarage."
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
Discussing his wife's illness; explaining that his wife needs to be in the country for her health and he "could not stay there, without stopping what has already been delayed too long -- the completion of [his]Life of Johnson, and taking [him]self out of the great wheel of the metropolis, from which [he does] hope that in time [he] shall have a capital profit"; expressing regret that he [Boswell] "never look[s] at the foreign publications"; commenting on various books and Temple's "story of the apparition"; remarking that he is ready to go to Scotland if he receives worse accounts of his wife; adding that "a part of [his] Magnum Opus [Life of Johnson] is now ready for the press" and he plans to "begin to print next week."
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