BIB_ID
379997
Accession number
MA 981.83
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1790 Sept. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 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
Explaining that he is writing a short letter instead of a long one because his "old friend [David] Ross, the player, died suddenly yesterday morning" and he is to be "chief mourner"; advising him to have his daughter accept her suitor; adding that Temple's daughter "is indeed a charming girl, and was much admired here, even by the critic [Edmond] Malone."
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