BIB_ID
379986
Accession number
MA 981.82
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1790 July 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 22.5-30.5 cm
Notes
Addressed and franked by Baynes Garforth.
Addressed to "The Reverend Mr. Temple / Penryn / Cornwall."
Docketed.
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 trace of a seal.
Addressed to "The Reverend Mr. Temple / Penryn / Cornwall."
Docketed.
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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Major William Stone; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1906.
Summary
Telling him that he was "detained in irksome captivity" at Carlisle from June 20th to July 15th; listing what he has done in London since his return; reporting that he and his two daughters dined "at Sir Joshua Reynolds's"; reporting that his son James has been "seriously ill of a fever for near a week" but is improving; adding that his son is "so oppressed at Westminster School by the big boys" that he is "almost afraid to send him thither"; discussing their mutual dissatisfaction with their lives; informing him that he "parted from the northern tyrant [Lord Lonsdale] in a strange, equivocal state, for he was half irritated, half reconciled"; promising that he will keep himself "quite independent" of Lonsdale; concluding that he "got such accounts of the lady of fortune" that he is "quite determined to make no advances."
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