LETTERS

OF

MRS. ELIZABETH MONTAGU,

WITH SOME OF THE LETTERS OF HER
CORRESPONDENTS.

PART THE SECOND,

CONTAINING HER LETTERS FROM THE AGE OF TWENTY-
THREE TO FORTY, ENDING WITH THE CORONATION
OF GEORGE THE THIRD.

PUBLISHED BY

MATTHEW MONTAGU, ESQ.

HER NEPHEW AND EXECUTOR.

VOL. III.

LONDON

printed for t. cADELL AND W: DAVIES,
STRAND;

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW,

ST. JAMES'S.

1813.
B

MRS. MONTAGU'S LETTERS,

&c.

To the Rev. Mr. Freind.

DEAR COUSIN,

Allerthorpe, October 26th, 1744.

I HAD the favour of your kind letter this morning, and resolved to return immediate thanks for it, that I might have a kind of right to such another. You see the grounds of human gratitude, it is one of the social virtues; that is, a duty towards another practised for the good of oneself; but, however, believe me to be as good as the generality of my species, and that if I excel in any particular, it is in loving my friends. It is no wonder