Autograph letter signed from James Boswell to 'My Dear Sir', [Robert Skene, MP for Fife], Edinburgh, January 6, 1784.

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Autograph letter signed from James Boswell to 'My Dear Sir', [Robert Skene, MP for Fife], Edinburgh, January 6, 1784.

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Boswell declares his opposition for Charles James Fox's East India bill, which in his opinion, amounts to an alarming attempt "to overturn our Constitution by creating a greater power than the King, I mean the establishment of East India Commissioners independent of His Majesty..."; he must therefore, albeit reluctantly, deny Skene his backing in the forthcoming election. [from dealer's description].

2 p. 4to. integral blank leaf (detached, but present)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Skene, Robert, Lieutenant-Colonel

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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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James Boswell (1740-1795) was the author of one of the most influential biographies in the English language, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He also wrote two successful travel books: An Account of Corsica, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. He worked intermittently as a lawyer, and in 1782 succeeded his father as Laird of Auchinleck in Scotland. From the description of James Boswell letters, 1762-1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612839330 Boswell wa...