BIB_ID
379941
Accession number
MA 981.70
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1789 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.8 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
Reporting that his wife is still in poor health and he is waiting for a letter from a physician giving an opinion of her condition before he decides whether to return to Scotland; noting that "as London is the best place when one is happy, it is equally so when one is the reverse; for the power of being at once wrapped up in undisturbed privacy, by not being personally known, and having an influx of various ideas, by being in the midst of multitudes, cannot fail to dissipate many a cloud which would thicken and augment and press upon the spirits in the country, or in a narrower place"; mentioning that General [Pasquale] Paoli entertains him at dinner today.
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