Transcribers’ Note Words in italics are marked with _underscores_. Words in small capitals are shown in UPPER CASE. Please also see the note at the end of this volume. [Illustration: _Frances Reynolds pinx.ᵗ_ _C. Townley sculp_ _Mrs. Montagu_ _Emery Walker Ph.Sc._ ] ELIZABETH MONTAGU THE QUEEN OF THE BLUE-STOCKINGS HER CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1720 to 1761 BY HER GREAT-GREAT-NIECE EMILY J. CLIMENSON AUTHORESS OF “HISTORY OF SHIPLAKE,” “HISTORICAL GUIDE TO HENLEY-ON-THAMES,” “PASSAGES FROM THE DIARIES OF MRS. P. LYBBE POWYS,” ETC., ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. II [Illustration: Publisher’s colophon, a coat of arms] LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1906 PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED LONDON AND BECCLES CONTENTS TO VOL. II PAGE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix CHAPTER I. Rev. William Robinson--Botham and Bishop Sherlock--Death of Dr. Chesilden--The Scott separation--South Lodge, Enfield--“Chinese pomp”--A letter to Edward Montagu--Mount Morris--Archibald Bower--“Madonna”--Inoculation--Books to read--History of the Popes--G. L. Scott--The Delany lawsuit--Turkey Pye--The joyous Berenger--Death of Bishop Berkeley--A woman in vapours--Mrs. Laurence Sterne--Lady Bute’s Assembly--A perfect woman--Pitt’s insomnia--Rent of lodgings--The Penshurst pictures--Trinity College, Cambridge, Library--Gibside--Stonelands--“Minouets”--Beau Nash--Pitt at Hayes--The new post-chaise--Bullstrode menagerie--Richardson’s _Sir Charles Grandison_--Lucian’s _Triumph of the Gout_--Schoolgirls’ bills--Death of Pelham--“Tom” Lyttelton--West appointed to Chelsea Hospital--Elizabeth Canning--Molière’s _Precieuses Ridicules_--Hateley the artist--Lillingston Dayrell--History of Bath--Pitt’s engagement and marriage--Bishop Warburton and Bolingbroke--Pitt’s honeymoon--“Gossip” Joan--Nathaniel Hooke 1–66 CHAPTER II.