PHILIP, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 64 _From the picture by WILLIAM HOARE, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery._ (_Photogravure._) DAVID AND MRS. GARRICK 82 _From the picture by WILLIAM HOGARTH, in the possession of His Majesty The King._ (_Photogravure._) GEORGE, LORD LYTTELTON 96 _From a picture by (unknown), in the National Portrait Gallery._ MRS. MARY DELANY 106 _From the picture by JOHN OPIE, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery._ ALLERTHORPE HALL, YORKSHIRE 120 CONYERS MIDDLETON 120 _From the mezzotint by FABER, after the picture by ECCARDT, 1746._ (_Photogravure._) BENJAMIN STILLINGFLEET 128 _From an engraving by V. GREEN, after ZOFFANY._ MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER 160 _From the picture by SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A._ DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON 164 _From the picture painted for Topham Beauclerk by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A., in the possession of Mr. A. H. Hallam Murray._ EDMUND BURKE 170 _From the picture by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery._ DR. EDWARD YOUNG 256 _From the picture by (unknown), in the National Portrait Gallery._ WILLIAM PULTENEY, FIRST EARL OF BATH 258 _From a picture by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A., 1761, in the National Portrait Gallery._ (_Photogravure._) LAURENCE STERNE 272 _After the picture by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A., in the possession of The Marquess of Lansdowne._ (_Photogravure._) ELIZABETH MONTAGU THE QUEEN OF THE BLUE-STOCKINGS CHAPTER I. 1752–1754--CHIEFLY AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS, SANDLEFORD, AND HAYES--BEGINNING OF FRIENDSHIP WITH PITT--CORRESPONDENCE WITH GILBERT WEST. [Year: 1752] [Page heading: “PEREGRINE PICKLE”] [1]_January 1, 1752_, an interchange of letters and compliments from the Wests and Mrs. Montagu take place. Mrs. West sends a huge turkey and ham pie, half for Mrs. Montagu, half for Temple West, Gilbert’s brother. Mr. Pitt, Lady Cobham, and Berenger were expected. In a letter to her sister, Sarah Scott, Mrs. Montagu mentions-- “My Father is going to purchase a fine living for Willy, indeed he will not enjoy it till after the death of the present incumbent, but it brings in £470 a year, a fine reversion for a younger brother, and what, joined to another moderate living, will be a comfortable subsistence.”