BC_1763_EMONTAGU_EV_3

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<Q A 1763? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
[}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. 1763? HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, NO MO NUMBER}]
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[\1763?\]
     I had the mortification of hearing Lord & Lady Cardigan & Lady Betty Montagu are engaged, but Lord Bradenel having been so good as to say he w=d= come on tuesday evening, I am in hopes you may prevail on Lady Betty to come with you. I have sent you a copy of verses for y=r= perusal & to show to Lady Cardigan, & shall be glad to have them again to morrow morning, you said you sh=d= go to Whitehall this morning which makes me mention y=r= showing y=e= verses to my Lady Cardigan, who I know has a fine taste, tho she suppresses good poetry when she is the subject, but I have been promised some verses in her honour written when her Ladyship was abroad. If you will come to my box at y=e= Oratorio to night you will find Lady Sophia Carteret Lady Louisa Farmer & y=rs= Humble Servant, & Sampson is to be perform'd, & the Musician makes blindness audible as much as our great Poet did darkness visible. I shall think of Homer, Milton, Ossian, & Handel when the blind song is performd. come therefore & partake ye pleasures of ye imagination so suited to y=r= delicacy, sensibility, & amability
     y=rs= EM
     I think Voltaires verses are charming
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[\ADDRESS\] To / M=rs= Vesey