BIB_ID
380021
Accession number
MA 981.93
Creator
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Display Date
1794 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.3 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
Commenting on Temple's fall from a horse; telling Temple that "such a number of writings against the French Revolution have now appeared, that a Sermon on the subject would not be bought"; adding that he is "shocked to hear of the scandalous conduct of three ... Cornish clergymen"; thanking him for his "friendly admonition" not to "indulg[e] so much in wine" and stating that he "resolve[s] anew to be upon [his] guard."
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