BIB_ID
379945
Accession number
MA 981.72
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1789 Mar. 31.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 22.7 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
Telling him that he has had an alarming account of his wife's health and plans to leave London for Auchinleck tomorrow, taking his daughter Veronica with him; adding, "should the fatal event happen in my absence, I should have a just upbraiding gloom upon my mind for the rest of my life"; criticizing [Henry] Dundas for promising to find David Boswell a position in trade and neglecting to do so; adding that Dundas also seems to be avoiding him even though "he pledged himself ... to assist [Boswell] in advancing in promotion"; suspecting that Dundas has prejudiced [William] Pitt against him; discussing his chances of getting a seat in Parliament at the General Election.
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