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Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1709 to 1762

Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1709 to 1762 This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract A year ago I bought this battered volume for one shilling at a fair. I had often read that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) had introduced inoculation against smallpox into Western Europe. I was acquainted too with the story of her friendship and later quarrel with Alexander Pope. In 1717 Pope wrote in the Epistle to Mr. Jervas: Thus Churchill's race shall other hearts surprise, And other beauties envy Wortley's eyes. After the quarrel Wortley became Worsley, simply by replacing t with s. And Pope could write: ...Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke, As Sappho's diamonds with her dirty smock, Or Sappho at her toilet's greasy task, With Sappho fragrant at an evening mask: So morning insects that in muck begun, Shine, buzz and flyblow in the setting sun. This volume contains a number of letters from her to Pope while she was traveling to Constantinople with her husband http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1709 to 1762

Archives of Internal Medicine , Volume 111 (2) – Feb 1, 1963

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9926
eISSN
1538-3679
DOI
10.1001/archinte.1963.03620260134036
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract A year ago I bought this battered volume for one shilling at a fair. I had often read that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) had introduced inoculation against smallpox into Western Europe. I was acquainted too with the story of her friendship and later quarrel with Alexander Pope. In 1717 Pope wrote in the Epistle to Mr. Jervas: Thus Churchill's race shall other hearts surprise, And other beauties envy Wortley's eyes. After the quarrel Wortley became Worsley, simply by replacing t with s. And Pope could write: ...Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke, As Sappho's diamonds with her dirty smock, Or Sappho at her toilet's greasy task, With Sappho fragrant at an evening mask: So morning insects that in muck begun, Shine, buzz and flyblow in the setting sun. This volume contains a number of letters from her to Pope while she was traveling to Constantinople with her husband

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Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Feb 1, 1963

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