BIB_ID
380011
Accession number
MA 981.88
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1791 Nov. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 32 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
Telling him that he had a "very unhappy time in Ayrshire" as "it brought upon [his] mind, with increased force, the recollection of ... having lost [his] dear and valuable wife"; noting that his "depression of spirits has continued" in London: "though I go into jovial scenes, I feel no pleasure in existence"; saying that he plans to remind [Henry] Dundas of his promise to do something for Temple's son; remarking that Sir Joshua Reynolds has been "almost as low as" Boswell because of incipient blindness.
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