Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: liquors, etc. I have been to see several of the mot celebrated gardeus, but I will not teize yriu with their descriptious. I dare swearyon think my k-tter already long enough. But I muat not conclnde without begging your pardon, for not obeying your commands, in sending the lace you ordered me. Upon my...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: liquors, etc. I have been to see several of the mot celebrated gardeus, but I will not teize yriu with their descriptious. I dare swearyon think my k-tter already long enough. But I muat not conclnde without begging your pardon, for not obeying your commands, in sending the lace you ordered me. Upon my word, 1 can yet find none that is not dearer than yon may buy it in London. If you want any India eoods, here are great variety of peuny-worths, and I shall follow your orders with great pleasure and exactuess, being, Dear madam, etc. etc. IIL To Miis. S. C. Nimeguen, Aug. i3, O.S. i7i6. .1 Am extremely sorry, my dear S., that your fears of disobliging your relatious, and their fears for you.r health and safety, have hindered me from enjoying the happiness of your company, and you the pleasure of a diverting journey. I receive some degree of mortification from every agreeable novelty, or pleasing prospect, by the reflection of your having so unlnckily missed the delight which I know it would have given you. If yon were with me in this town, you would be ready to expect to receive visits from your Nottingham friends. No two places were ever more resembling; one has but to give the Maese the ii 1 name of the Tent, and there is no distinguishing the prospect, Ike houses, bke those of Nottingham, are built one above another, and are intermixed, in the same mauner, with trees and gardeus. The tower, they call Julins Cesar's, has the same situation with Nottingham castle; and I caunot help fancying 1 see from it the Trent-field, Adboulton, places so well known to us. 'Tis true, 'the fortificatious make a considerable difference. All the learned in the art of war great commendatious on them; for my part, that know nothing of the matter, I shall, content myself with telling you...