[243] Letters on Several Subjects 2. 166.

[244] Letters 14. 5.

[245] Diary 1. 253.

[246] She was so called by Mrs. Delany as early as 1751. (Correspondence 3. 21), who adds, ‘The spirits of the air protect her.’

[247] Letters to Mrs. Montagu 1. 242.

[248] Ib. 1. 330.

[249] Ib. 1. 311.

[250] Mrs. Carter writes her (Series of Letters 4. 27), ‘I prevented you from carrying me to every place you had ever heard of in England or Wales.’

[251] Letters to Mrs. Montagu 1. 335, 2. 355; cf. 2. 109.

[252] Series of Letters 4. 120.