BC_17xx_EMONTAGU_EV_2

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<Q A 17?? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
[}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. BEFORE 1780S.HUNTINGTON LIBRARY. MO 6381?}]
<P1>
My d=r= [\F\]riend
   W=d= your Provost make us believe that in Ireland Old Women do not like young Men that he affects a doubt whether we shall be glad to see his Son? For my part, I know that if he can perswade the young Man to visit an old Woman in Hillstreet on Sunday evening, y=e= older of y=e= parties will be glad, & that he may not be sorrowfull, youth & beauty shall be invited to meet him. I will [\certainly\] wait on you on tuesday evening. By the wisedom of Philosophers, the Genius of Poets, & the Sagacity of Criticks I conjure [\you/] to dine with me today, You will meet all these things at table, & let us exult, ye diviner Muses
<P2>
will be in Petticoats & call themselves [\BLOT\] [\UNCLEAR\] & Barboult. I shall have room for M=rs= Hancock if she is not afraid of y=e= Sinister number 13. always y=rs=
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[\ADDRESS\] M=rs= Vesey