BIB_ID
379981
Accession number
MA 981.81
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1790 June 2.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Reverend / Mr. Temple / Penryn Cornwall." Four additional lines that appear beneath Temple's name have been crossed out: "at James Boswell's Esq. / Queen Anne Street West / Cavendish Square / London."
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 postmark and 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 postmark and seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Describing a mortifying encounter with Lord Lonsdale in which Lonsdale insulted him by saying that he never intended to bring him into Parliament; adding that this insult was offered in front of "a low man from Carlisle, and one of his menial servants"; explaining that Lonsdale also refused to let him resign as the office of Recorder of Carlisle, and he is now stuck in Carlisle on business; writing that he is "ashamed and sunk on account of the disappointment of hopes, which led [him] to endure such grievances"; announcing his intention to "get rid of all communicaiton with this brutal fellow" [Lonsdale].
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