BC_1769_EMONTAGU_EV_1

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<Q A 1769? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. 1769 MAY 24. SANDLEFORD, BERKS. MO 6397}]
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Wenesday night y=e= 24 My Dear Friend
   I know you will be glad to hear an affectionate Friend is on y=e= recovery. I have miss'd my fever til this afternoon, & tho my pulse is a little too quiet my amendment to day is most visible. My Doctor tells me there is hardly any feverishness remaining, and that this gradual decay of it is ye best retreat it could make. I cannot help laughing at all the Guessers, & exult in ye guesses when they alight on L=d= Lyttelton & M=rs= Carter. My book is certainly (\à la Greque\) tho ye Author is no Grecian, but there is a wonderful parade about y=e= Grecian [\Tragedians\] . I believe it will grow as fashionable
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for Ladies to put on Greek as to put on rouge, but connoisseurs will distinguish [\BLOT\] [{from{] [\counterfeits/] y=e= genuine learning & genuine bloom. I am glad I am concealed behind y=e= Grecian Masque, & beg ye secret may be kept, & then I may amuse myself with scribbling for y=e= publick when I please. I have not ye heart to think of y=e= departure. I cannot talk of it. Wherever you go, my Dear Dear Sylph, you carry great part of my heart, the heart has a magnetick power over ye rest of ye body, so perhaps you will find some day in y=r= bowers of bliss in y=e= Liffy. Pray return my thanks to L=d= Lyttelton for his amusing & friendly letters which I will answer tomorrow, assure his Lordship that I am getting well as fast as possible.
   I am my Dear Friend
   Ever & every where yours
   EM
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[\ADDRESS\] To / M=rs= Vesey
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