BC_17xx_EMONTAGU_EV_6

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<Q A 17?? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
[}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. BEFORE 1785. HUNTINGTON LIBRARY. MO 6401?}]
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My dear Madam
   I am ever disposed to seize an opportunity to enjoy ye conversation of M=r= & M=rs= Vesey, & I feel just now, like a sick Alderman invited to dine on turtle, with great sense of a good appetite for ye future feast, but as great sense of having made intemperate meals at former feasts, I am well convinced that solitude & dulness & perfect abstinence from agreable conversation w=d= be most salutary & therefore I am afraid to promise to accept y=r= kind invitation. Ask therefore some happier Mortal for as I am to be at M=rs= Pitts in ye evening I ought to save (\[\mon\] soufle de vie\) till then. If you have any very particular reason to desire me on friday rather than any other day I will come, but if not w=d= wish to defer this pleasure till I can better enjoy it. I am not positively ill but I am a [\whimsy\] animal, & [\so\] much so it is an uncivil but eternal truth to say I am yours EM