A beautiful Elegy of Miss Warton (sister to the poets of that name) upon the death of her father, has escaped your notice; nor can I refer you to it.

Has the Duchess of Newcastle written much verse?
her Life of her Lord, and the extracts in your book, and in the 'Eminent Ladies,' are all that I have seen of hers.

The 'Mirth and Melancholy' has so many fine strokes of imagination, that I cannot but think there must be merit in many parts of her writings.

How beautiful those lines, from 'I dwell in groves,' to the conclusion, 'Yet better loved, the more that I am known,' excepting the four verses after 'Walk up the hills.' And surely the latter verse of the couplet, 'The tolling bell which for the dead rings out; A mill where rushing waters run about;' is very noticeable: no person could have hit upon that union of images without being possessed of true poetic feeling.

Could you tell me anything of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu more than is to be learned from Pope's letters and her own?
She seems to have been destined for something much higher and better than she became.