Specimen letters Author:Albert Stanburrough Cook Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: servants and little shopwomen here are more nicely clean than most of our ladies, and the great variety of neat dresses — every woman dressing her head after her... more » own fashion — is an additional pleasure in seeing the town. You see hitherto I make no complaints, dear sister, and if I continue to like traveling as well as I do at present, I shall not repent my project. It will go a great way in making me satisfied with it if it affords me an opportunity of entertaining you. But it is not from Holland that you must expect a disinterested offer. I can write enough in the style of Rotterdam to tell you plainly in one word that I expect returns of all the London news. You see I have already learnt to make a good bargain, and that it is not for nothing I will so much as tell you I am Your affectionate sister. IV Lady Mary Wortlcy Montagu to her Sister Vienna, Sept. 8 [O.S.], 1716. I am now, my dear sister, safely arrived at Vienna, and, I thank God, have not at all suffered in my health, nor — what is dearer to me — in that of my child, by all our fatigues. We traveled by water from Ratisbon, a journey perfectly agreeable, down the Danube, in one of those little vessels that they very properly call wooden houses, having in them all the conveniences of a palace—stoves in the chambers, kitchens, etc. They are rowed by twelve men each, and move with such an incredible swiftness that in the same day you have the pleasure of a vast variety of prospects, and within the space of a few hours you have the pleasure of seeing a populous city, adorned with magnificent palaces, and the most romantic solitudes, which appear distant from the commerce of mankind, the banks ofthe Danube being charmingly diversified with woods, rocks, mountains covered with vines, fields of corn, large cities, an...« less