additional volume to the letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W----y M-----e
Subtitle: written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, &c. in different parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks : drawn from sources that have been inaccessible to other travellers.
Contributors: Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762; Cleland, John, 1709-1789; Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Publisher: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt ...
Published: 1767
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Montagu, Mary Wortley, -- Lady, -- 1689-1762.; Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence.; Diplomats' spouses -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.; Marriage.; Turkey -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Europe -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Montague's letters vol. iv
Notes: "The popularity of the Embassy Letters (in 1763) encouraged an editor, supposedly John Cleland, to fabricate an additional volume in 1767, containing five probably spurious letters along with an authentic and previously printed essay, letter, and some verse." -- Halsband, R. Life of LadyMary Wortley Montagu, p. 289.

This 4th v. "was almost certainly a forgery." -- Gibbs, L. Admirable Lady Mary, p. 237.

Includes "A summary of the contents of the letters in these four volumes" (p. 119-142).

Lowndes (1860), v. 6, p. 1588.
Table of contents: value: Letter[s] LIII-LVIII; value: Inquiry into the truth of Monsieur Rochefoucault's maxim. 'that marriage is sometimes convenient, but never delightful.'; value: Verses written in the chiask at Pera, overlooking Constantinople, December 26, 1718; value: Verses to the Lady Mary Wortley Montague / by Mr. Pope.