BC_1762_EMONTAGU_EV_2

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<Q A 1762? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
[}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. 1762? AUG 1?. HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, NO MO NUMBER}]
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Reading Sunday ye [1=st=] of  [aug] 1762
     When I received my Dear M=rs= Veseys letter on Friday I was so ill with the old complaint in my stomach I durst not write even a line. On Saturday morning I went to M=rs= Stanleys at [\Clewar\] where I staid till to day, after church I set out for Sandleford, & am got as far as Reading. My [\Sister\] is to come to me on Wenesday, & I had intended to set out for Southampton to morrow, & stay with you till Wenesday, but I continue so much indisposed I should be a heavy weight on your hands. M=r= Montagu intends to come to Sandleford [\this\] week so I fear all my agreable prospect of Southampton must vanish. My head akes & I must indulge it by lolling is a great chair till the Coach is ready to carry me home. Pray go to the Isle of Wight if it can be done safely but do not
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run any hazards. I shall write to you again my Dear Madam as soon as I can. I hope the fresh air will make me as well as I was at Hagley but I have been much out of order for some
time.
     I am Dear Madam
     Ever y=rs=
     EM
     My best respects attend My Lady Primrose & M=rs= Hancock. It is now said the poor Czar is mad. Lord Metcombe has left a personal estate of about 100,000=L= to an old M=r= Wyadham. he has left 2000=L= to S=r= W: Britten & a gold snuff box to L=d= Bute