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Lady Mary Wortley Montague

CHAPTER XIV
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She has seen the "Memoirs of her old friend, the Duchess of Maryborough," but would be glad of the _Apology for a late Resignation_ and of Colin Campbell's books on _Architecture_.

She has read Mrs.Lennox's _The Female Quixote_, and much of Sarah Fielding; and she desires Henry Fielding's posthumous works, with his _Memoirs of Jonathan Wild_ and _The Journey to the Next World;_ also the _Memoirs of Verocand_, a man of pleasure, and those of a Young Lady.

"You will call all this trash, trumpery, etc.," she said to her daughter.

"I can assure you I was more entertained by G.Edwards than H.St.John, of whom you have sent me duplicates.

I see new story books with the same pleasure your eldest daughter does a new dress, or the youngest a new baby.


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