Excerpt from The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, Vol. 3: With Some of the Letters of Her Correspondents; Part the Second, Containing Her Letters From the Age of Twenty-Three to Forty, Ending With the Coronation of George the Third I had the favour of your kind letter this morning, and resolved to return imme diate thanks for it, that I might have a kind of right to such another. You see the grounds of human gratitude, it is one; of the social virtues; that fa 5a towards another practised foif. The good of oneself; but, however, Eeliem me to be as good as the generality of my species, and that if I excel in any penticular, it is in loving my friends. It is no wonder vol. III. Bthat a m1nd weakened and bowed by afilic tion seeks to support itself by the assist ance of others; but in my happiest hours, and when the delusions of life (for I call the happiness of this world no better) were strongest upon me, I thought friendship had high and noble pleasures. I am pleased with what you say of my Dut chess I think she is amhonour to our sex, and a happiness to her friends. Every thing of this world is of a mortal nature, but I hope our friendship will not cease to exist till we do. What you say of the other person gives me concern; I really love her, but if I find by you that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.