BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_3

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<Q A 1740? FN SS EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH ROBINSON TO SARAH ROBINSON. 1740 JUNE 21? LONDON. MO 5528}]
<P1>
Dear Sister
   I did not write to you last post being somewhat wroth at your laziness, & your excuse diverted me for you certainly spent the Evening in the [\Trap\] or you might have wrote after you came [\home/] I hope if you chance (\fortune de l'amour\) to be caught in my Neighbours decoy another time it will not be on a Post day four days in a week I allow you to Strephonize if you please but sundays wednesdays & friday forget your Strephon & remember your Sister.
   I must write a very short letter for to day being the last I am to pass in the Great City I am in great hurrys, & a certain intricacy in my brain which is all cunning when I am not [\just\] out of order is now a sort of confusion.
   I have been in the Cold Bath this morning breakfasted with M=rs= Freind am going to take leave of Cotes
<P2>
Must call upon Zinx dine in Dover Street. visit in y=e= afternoon walk in the Park in the Evening & we are to have company at Supper, there is occupation & dispatch for a Courier. I desire you to present my Duty to my Father & Mother, & for my respects to my Neighbour B you may deliver [\them/] as you find occasion in the Cool of the Evening & at discretion; My Back is much obliged to you for your Kind inquiries, desires its compliments & assures you it is in very good health.
   I am now indeed according to our friends phrase yours in a fluster
   ER
Saturday
given at our Palace at Whitehall Deb desires her Duty
<P3>
[\ADDRESS\] To / Miss Robinson / At Mount Morris / Near Hythe
/ Kent / Free Portland
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