RT Journal
A1 Kelly M
T1 LEtters from the right honourable lady mary wortley montagu, 1709 to 1762
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1963
FD February 1
VO 111
IS 2
SP 274
OP 276
DO 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620260134036
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1963.03620260134036
AB A year ago I bought this battered volume for one shilling at a fair. I had often read that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) had introduced inoculation against smallpox into Western Europe. I was acquainted too with the story of her friendship and later quarrel with Alexander Pope. In 1717 Pope wrote in the Epistle to Mr. Jervas: Thus Churchill's race shall other hearts surprise, And other beauties envy Wortley's eyes.After the quarrel Wortley became Worsley, simply by replacing t with s. And Pope could write:...Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke, As Sappho's diamonds with her dirty smock, Or Sappho at her toilet's greasy task, With Sappho fragrant at an evening mask: So morning insects that in muck begun, Shine, buzz and flyblow in the setting sun.This volume contains a number of letters from her to Pope while she was traveling to Constantinople with her husband