BIB_ID
81278
Accession number
MA 9227
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1799 March 12.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.6 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Canning gives the place of writing as Spring Gardens, a street in London.
A pencil note on the letter identifies it as being to Malone. Both Canning and Malone were members of The Club, the dining club founded by Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Johnson, which may be the club referred to here. In Boswell's Life of Johnson, he records that The Club met at the Thatched House Tavern in 1799.
This letter was removed from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby." Other letters from the volumes are now catalogued as MA 981.1-109.
A pencil note on the letter identifies it as being to Malone. Both Canning and Malone were members of The Club, the dining club founded by Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Johnson, which may be the club referred to here. In Boswell's Life of Johnson, he records that The Club met at the Thatched House Tavern in 1799.
This letter was removed from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby." Other letters from the volumes are now catalogued as MA 981.1-109.
Summary
Writing about an upcoming club meeting: "You must not infer that I am likely to become an inattentive Member (however I may be an unworthy one) of the Club, from the circumstances of my being unable to attend to-morrow, & to take the Chair, which I find I am called upon to fill. But I am not my own master on a post-night; and a post-night after the arrival of fifteen mails at once, will confine me too strictly to the Foreign Office to allow of my partaking the convivialities of the Thatched House" (possibly a reference to the Thatched House Tavern in St. James's Street); asking his correspondent to take his place as the Chair and make his apologies to the members; begging his pardon for giving him trouble, but adding "I know not to whom I could apply with so confident a reliance upon their good-nature & good offices."
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