"I have writ to you twice since I received yours in answer to that I sent by Mr.de Caylus," she remarked a little later; "but I believe none of what I send by the post ever come to your hands, nor ever will while they are directed to Mr.Waters, for reasons that you may easily guess.

I wish you would give me a safer direction; it is very seldom I can have the opportunity of a private messenger, and it is very often that I have a mind to write to my dear sister." Lady Mary, of course, often stayed in London, and in her correspondence are many references to her friends and her doings.
"Operas flourish more than ever, and I have been in a tract of going every time," she wrote to her sister in April, 1723.

"The people I live most with are none of your acquaintance; the Duchess of Montagu excepted, whom I continue to see often.

Her daughter Belle is at this instant in the paradisal state of receiving visits every day from a passionate lover, who is her first love; whom she thinks the finest gentleman in Europe, and is, besides that, Duke of Manchester.

Her mamma and I often laugh and sigh reflecting on her felicity, the consummation of which will be in a fortnight.