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 524 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

ments to my Lady Strafford, and my wife tells me we ought to make many excuses for the ill entertainment we gave her here, but I tell her that neither My Lady nor your Lordship came here to be entertain'd within doors, and it was the fault of the weather and your Lordship's indisposition which hinder'd me from entertaining you better without ; however without making excuses I trust to your Lordship's goodness to excuse all faults and omissions in one who is so sincerely &c.

��[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.]

July 29, 1736. My Lord,

You know how to do the most obliging thing in the most obliging manner ;* in telling me that I have given you pleasure, you do not only take from me the shame of being troublesome, but have found a way to make me pleas'd with my selfe, since I never can employ [myself i*] more to my own satisfaction than in showing your Lordship that I am with the utmost gratitude and esteem my Lord,

Your Lordship's Most obedient humble servant,

M. W. MONTAGU.

��[Lord Bathurst.]

Cirencester, September d, 1736.

If I calculate right My Dear Lord you must have been now about a week at Wentworth Castle, and before this letter comes to your hands you will have had a fortnight's rest there, and triall of the Effect the Scarborough Waters have had upon you. Now I beg of your Lordship most earnestly that in a post or two after you receive this, you will order a servant to write me in two or three lines an exact account of the state

behalf of some poor petitioner named Elizabeth White.
 * Lord Strafford had been asked by the writer to interest himself on

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