BIB_ID
405596
Accession number
MA 9053.24
Creator
Boyle, G. D. (George David), 1828-1901.
Display Date
[1881-1901].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.7 x 17.6 and 11.3 x 17.7 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
Written on the verso of stationery engraved "Deanery, / Salisbury."
The letter is undated and in an unknown hand however the date range indicated above relates to the date range of this collection of letters.
The "lady celebrated by Burns" refers to Elizabeth Monboddo, daughter of Lord Monboddo, who was celebrated by Robert Burns in his "Address to Edinburgh" (1786) and in his poem "Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo", 1791.
Written on the verso of stationery engraved "Deanery, / Salisbury."
The letter is undated and in an unknown hand however the date range indicated above relates to the date range of this collection of letters.
The "lady celebrated by Burns" refers to Elizabeth Monboddo, daughter of Lord Monboddo, who was celebrated by Robert Burns in his "Address to Edinburgh" (1786) and in his poem "Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo", 1791.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sharing his memories of his grandfather's relationship to Monboddo; saying " I have often heard my father David Boyle tell a story of his father's joining to London with L'd Monboddo. According to the fashion of those days they shared a post chaise & occupied rooms in the same lodging in Bury St. - St. James'. On the Sunday, my grandfather, who was in deacon's orders, insisted on L'd Monboddo going with him to St. James' Church, to hear the Bp. of London, Dr. Porteaus; He preached on Dives & Lazarus, & as they left the church, Monboddo said to my grandfather "I think that rich man was not a bad sort of fellow after all. Very few people care about their brothers." My father remembered being taken to Monboddo's house as a boy, & used to speak of the beauty of the lady who was celebrated by Burns."
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