LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 

 TO THE; COUNTESS OF BUTE.* 



July 10, 1748. 



DEAR CHIU> : I received yours of May the 

 1 2th but yesterday, July the gth. I am 

 surprised you complain of my silence. I have 

 never failed answering yours the post after I 

 received them ; but I fear, being directed to 

 Twickenham (having no other direction from 

 you), your servants there may have neglected 

 them. 



I have been these six weeks, and still am, at 

 my dairy -house, which joins to my garden. I 

 believe I have already told you it is a long mile 

 from the Castle, which is situate in the midst 

 of a very large village, once a considerable 

 town, part of the walls still remaining, and has 

 not vacant ground enough about it to make a 



* Written from I^overe, near Brescia. The "Castle" 

 referred to in this letter was the chateau rented and 

 occupied by I<ady Mary. 



