Autograph letter : place not specified, to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], [1718].

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Autograph letter : place not specified, to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], [1718].

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Informing her that he is recovering from a "very severe Illness"; paying her compliments; telling her that his father died and his mother is in her "precarious last days of life"; asking her to hurry back to England; discussing letters between them that went missing; mentioning shared acquaintances; commenging on the "rupture of the two Courts" and the subsequent decline in "Gallantry and Gayety"; begging her to write to him more frequently now that she is "come into the region of posts."

1 item (8 p.) ; 22.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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