Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], [1716] Nov. 10.

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], [1716] Nov. 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/672028769

Saying, "the more I examine my own mind, the more Romantick I find myself"; discussing his admiration for her; mentioning people's comments about her wig; asking her to talk about herself rather than shrines and relics; wondering how her "Christian Virtues hold out in so long a Voyage" into the "free Region of Adultery"; imagining the stages of her trip to Turkey; quoting Tibullus; remarking that his body "is as ill-matchd to [his] Mind as any wife to her husband"; mentioning his own trips to York and Bath; reporting that [William] Congreve also wrote to her; sending her "two little pieces" [not included in this collection]; telling her he has heard she will travel through Italy and go to Constantinople by sea; suggesting that he may join her.

1 item (6 p.) ; 23cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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