Autograph Letter Signed ALS
$13,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books
Signed
“I find Andrew Dalrymple behaves very ill. He must not be spared.” EXCEPTIONALLY RARE LETTER FROM JAMES BOSWELL TO CARETAKER ANDREW GIBB DATED “30 APRIL 1791” TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. BOLDLY SIGNED WITH FULL SIGNATURE. Rarely at ease with himself, James Boswell was famously a man of contradictions, vacillating between different versions of his identity: Lecherous rake or doting
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