BIB_ID
380018
Accession number
MA 981.91
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1793 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. Mr. Temple / Penryn / Cornwall."
Endorsed.
Franked and addressed by John Courtenay.
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.
Endorsed.
Franked and addressed by John Courtenay.
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
Expressing regret and repentance after he was robbed while drunk: "this however shall be a crisis in my life: I trust I shall henceforth be a sober, regular man. Indeed, my indulgence in wine has, of late years especially, been excessive"; recommending that Temple remove himself "from St. Gluvias for a time, and dissipate [him]self in some place where [he] can have variety"; noting that he hopes to have the second edition of his Life of Johnson out next week and will send the additions to Temple; reporting that his "Continental tour is to hold."
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