The last letter of the year is on December 17, to Mr. West, from Sandleford. From this it appears Mrs. Montagu was extremely unwell, but anxious for the health of Mr. West, who had had one of his periodical gout attacks, which had rendered his hands temporarily incapable of use. In this mention of Mr. Hooke is made. Mr. Nathaniel Hooke[526] wrote a “History of Rome,” and other works. He assisted the old Duchess of Marlborough to write her “Memoirs of her Life,” for which she gave him £5000. He was a Roman Catholic, a disciple of Fenelon’s, and brought a Catholic priest to Pope on his death-bed. “Pray have you made a good Protestant of Mr. Hooke? If you cure heresy and schism, should you not have your doctor’s degree in divinity rather than law?” [526] Died in 1763. END OF VOL. I. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES. [Illustration: GILBERT WEST.] Volume II [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.