BC_17xx_EMONTAGU_EV_8

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<Q A 17?? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
[}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. BEFORE 1775. MO 6405?}]
   M=r= Montagu went out before I was up & expects ye (^hou=r=^) of dining with [\me\] . I sh=d= like to thrust my nose into y=e= (\tête a tête\) of a Sylph & an Athenian maid. I wonder what (^lingo^) they talk. Thank me for not saying gibberish. I (^did for you^) what one friend has often done for another. I wrote a (\billet doux\) to y=r= Husband in
 y=r= absence. I bid him call all y=e= philosophers in Europe about him. alass unlucky Mortal that I am that I cannot dine with y=r= divinityships! Enquire [\whether DELETED\] [\of\] y=r= Serv=ts= whether M=r= Vesey has assembled y=e= whole Academy, not only y=e= (^budge Doctors of y=e= stoick furr^) but also ye learned who wear velvet & embroidery, for being myself a female philosopher I encline somewhat to ye velvet Sect. (\Adieu\) my dear Madam