LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)


By


LEWIS MELVILLE


_WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY AUBREY HAMMOND, AND SIXTEEN OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS_




To
EDITH AND JOHN CABOURN




PREFACE


Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has her niche in the history of medicine as
having introduced inoculation from the Near East into England; but her
principal fame is as a letter-writer.

Of her gifts as a correspondent she was proud, and with reason. It was