BIB_ID
380015
Accession number
MA 981.90
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1793 Feb. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Rev. Mr. Temple."
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 trace of a 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 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 is going down to Auchinleck to select a new minister; noting that he only plans to be there for three weeks because he needs to "return in early April, to appear in an Appeal before the House of Lords, and to publish the second edition of [his] 'Life of Johnson'"; sending him various books and pamphlets.
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