Letter from James Boswell, London, to the President and Council of The Royal Academy of Arts in London

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/SEC/1/17

Title

Letter from James Boswell, London, to the President and Council of The Royal Academy of Arts in London

Date

31 Oct 1791

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece, 2pp.

Previous reference codes

SB 13 d

Content Description

Accepting his election as Secretary for Foreign Correspondence [enclosed with letter to the Secretary of 31 October 1791]. Boswell says that he had always loved the arts, and did not neglect the opportunities he had for cultivating a taste for them during his travels on the continent; he is proud to be a member of an Academy that has the peculiar felicity of not being at all dependent on a minister, but is under the immediate patronage of the sovereign himself.