FROM MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER, ΤΟ MRS. MONTAGU, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1755 AND 1800. CHIEFLY UPON LITERARY AND MORAL SUBJECTS. PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE REV. MONTAGU PENNINGTON, M.A. VICAR OF NORTHBOURN IN KENT, AND PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, Digni sunt amicitia, quibus in ipsis inest causa cur diligantur. Extremum hunc-mihi concede laborem.-VIRG. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. London: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, By R. & R. Gilbert, St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell. 1817. ENGLISH OXFORD LIBRARY LETTERS TO MRS. MONTAGU. LETTER CXCVI. Deal, August 8, 1776. I AM resolved not to let a post pass, my dear friend, without thanking you for your kind and welcome letter, I therefore write in defiance of a fit of the head-ach, brought on, I suppose, by the day, which is agitated by all the storms and fury of December. It made me very happy to find your health was so much mended by your change of abode *, for your last letter from Paris had made me very uneasy; but I am now convinced that it was only the air of that close suffocating city which made you so ill. I must beg of you to feel a greater tenderness for my care of mind, than for my From Paris, to a very delightful and pleasant residence at Chaillot. VOL. III. B |