BIB_ID
380001
Accession number
MA 981.85
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1791 Feb. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 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
Reporting that he has had a "most miserable return of bad spirits"; discussing various possibilities for the advancement of Temple's son; commenting on Temple's daughter's suitor, a Mr. Powlett, and writing that he thinks the marriage should take place if Powlett has "a reasonable income upon some certainty."
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