Excerpt from The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vol. 1 of 3 With regard to that correspondence, it cannot be denied that parts are written with a freedom of expression which would not be tolerated in the present day; and those parts may perhaps be deemed sometimes to trespass beyond the bounds of strict deli cacy.* The Reader must, however, bear in mind that these letters were written as con fidential communications from one sister to another, at a period when the feeling upon such subjects was by no means so nice as it now is and that expressions, with which we now find great fault, might then be used by persons of the greatest propriety of conduct. 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.