BIB_ID
379961
Accession number
MA 981.75
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 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
Discussing his plans for his daughters and thanking Temple for offering to take his youngest daughter during her holidays from school; writing that he doesn't know whether to visit Temple "this month, so as to be at Carlisle the beginning of October, ... or whether [he should] keep up appearances by going a part of the Northern Circuit" first; commenting on their County election; noting that [Henry] "Dundas is insolently forcing upon [them] a gentleman from another County, which [Boswell] and two other Declarants ... now unite to resist"; adding that he has "very little chance for success at the General Election."
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