BIB_ID
380019
Accession number
MA 981.92
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1793 Oct. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.1 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
Thanking him for his kind letter; reporting that his wife's nephew has returned from India " on account of bad health"; alluding to the difficulties Temple's son is facing in trying to get promoted to Lieutenant within the Royal Navy; speaking of his daughters and his son who is at Eton.
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