BIB_ID
379979
Accession number
MA 981.80
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1790 Feb. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 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
Promising to write to him often; remarking that he is "at present wonderfully well," though he "cannot account for [his] healthful mind at this time" as "there is no change for the better in [his] circumstances"; noting that he has "high expectations, both as to fame and profit," for his "Life of Johnson"; mentioning the various people he has seen in London; criticizing [Henry] Dundas for his poor treatment of his brother, David Boswell.
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