[288] Letter dated 30th October 1708.
[289] Letter dated 7th January 1735.
[290] Clarke and Foxcroft, Life of Burnet, p. 429.
[291] Letter of 29th July 1743.
[292] The MSS. letters are preserved in the library of the Société pour l'histoire du Protestantisme Français.
[293] Married women, unless of noble birth, were styled before 1789 Mademoiselle.
[294] Written September 1697. In this, as in the following letters, the passages left out are merely of a complimentary nature.
[295] The touch of nature is wholly unexpected at this date.
[296] She was a contemporary writer of insipid pastorals.
[297] i.e. Locke and Mrs. Masham.