“Madam,
“I am extremely sorry not to have received the Honour of your Message before eleven o’clock last night, being detained abroad by Business till that Time. I flatter myself, however, that the affair you mention will not have suffered by my absence; for on fridays and mondays the Museum is open in the afternoon only, at the Hours of four and six, calculated to accommodate for a few months persons of a different class, and on Saturdays the Museum is shut up. I have therefore secured places for Mrs. Montagu and her company for Tuesday sennight, at one o’clock, and promise myself the Pleasure to send the Tickets on Wednesday next, unless the Time I have engaged should be inconvenient to you; in which latter case, I beg the Honour of a note to-morrow some time before noon.
“Madam, I remain, with great respect,
“Your most obedient
and most humble Servant,
“Chas. Morton.
“Montagu House, June 7, 1761.”
A COUNTRY GENTLEWOMAN — GESNER’S “MORT D’ABEL”
From Sandleford, on June 23, Mrs. Montagu writes to Mrs. Carter—
“Dear Madam,