Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], [1716] Aug. 18.

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], [1716] Aug. 18.

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Telling her that his letters "will be the most impartial Representations of a free heart ... Not a feature will be soften'd, or any advantageous Light employd to make the Ugly thing a little less hideous, but you shall find it in all respects most Horribly Like"; encouraging her to write freely to him because he is "confident no one knows [her] better"; discussing her influence over him and noting that she has "ruin'd [him] for all the Conversation of one Sex, and almost all the Friendship of the other" because he is "too sensible thro' [her] means that the Company of Men wants a certain Softness to recommend it, and that of Women wants every thing else"; describing the "misfortune" of "parting from what one most esteems."

1 item (6 p.) ; 22.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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