BOSWELL JAMES: (1740-1795) Scottish Biographer & Diarist, remembered for his biography of his contemporary, the English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. A.L.S., Mr. Boswell, in the third person, one page, small 4to, n.p. (London?), 29th April n.y., to the Lady Mayoress. Boswell presents his compliments to his correspondent and states 'in consequence of her obliging permission requests to have tickets for the Ball….for Mrs and Miss Otley', whom he explains are 'two ladies of his acquaintance who are come to town for a short time'. Boswell concludes by adding that the tickets may be sent to him at Mr. Dilly's in the Poultry. Some light overall age wear and a few small, minor tears to the edges and with some slight traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG
Charles Dilly (1739-1807) English Bookseller who retained premises in The Poultry, London. Dilly, with his brother Edward, published the first three editions of Boswell's Life of Johnson, as well as Tour to the Hebrides and An Account of Corsica.