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<Q A 1758? FN ED EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO EDWARD MONTAGU. 1758? NOVEMBER? 8. MO 2350}]
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Stilton wednesday 8=th= [\Nov. ADDED\]
[\ADDED 1758\]
My best & Dearest friend
   I have had a safe journey hither & if I had had your company I sh=d= have added a pleasant one considering y=e= season of y=e= year. I lay at Tunford ye night we parted, last night at Grantham, & tonight hope to get to Bugden. My cough was pretty easy last night. I have to day had a pain in my stomach but not very bad You will see this dated from Stilton. We shall lye at Natfield tomorrow & reach home early on friday. I shall write you a long letter by saturdays post; it is not in my power to give myself that pleasure at present for ye foolish people [{at{] [\INK BLOT\] yesterday at our Inn gave me a wrong account of ye going out of y=e= post for y=e= North so that till ye horses were getting ready to carry me to Bugden I did not know the post went out to night, & I dare not defer setting forward least I sh=d= be in y=e= dark. Yet how many things ought I to say to my dearest friend for all his goodness & kindness to me in y=e= North. I hope
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you will let me hear of y=r= safe return to Carrville. the storminess of this day has made me uneasy on y=r= account. My fellow travellers have drunk y=r= health every day & desire many comp=ts= to you they are going to see Hinchingbroke. I beg my Dearest to take care of his health which is far more precious to me than any thing in this World. For y=e= present I must conclude but on Saturday shall write you a longer letter.
   I am my Dear with the highest esteem
   & most gratefull affection
   Y=r= most faithfull Wife
   EM