BIB_ID
380140
Accession number
MA 981.107
Creator
Temple, John J.
Display Date
"Friday morning" [1795 Apr. 10?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Mr. Temple / St. Gluvias, Penryn / Cornwall.
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
Writing that he has just returned from taking leave of the Miss Boswells before leaving town; reporting that [James] Boswell is "not quite well; he returned a few nights ago from the 'Literary Club' quite weak and languid"; asking his father for money before he returns to Eton so he can pay his bill at the coffee house.
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