To end this letter, she tells a humorous tale about how the women urged her to join them in their baths. She describes the lovely baths of the Turkish women, whom she describes as being very friendly and graceful, and she was astonished by the beauty of the scene. She describes a Greek variation on this practice where they incise themselves on their foreheads or in the points of the sign of the cross across their torso-head, chest, and either shoulder.Īfter some description of Ottoman life, style and the aesthetics of Turkey, she describes a practice that seems unusual to her. This is the practice she describes-they lay small pox into an incision along a vein which they cut with a blade. She writes about the Small Pox in Turkey, and she tells of engrafting, an early inoculation practice which she describes. She is especially fond of the coffee and the silk. In her day, she learns about Eastern cuisine, and she writes of the goods from that region. We learn that the letters are sent with Reverend Benjamin Sowden who travels back and forth. As the wife of a dignitary, she sees many sides of the Ottoman Empire. In vivacious, academically aware prose, she writes about the world of the Ottomans. She writes back home to a friend in Britain. It is the stories of her time in Turkey, which at the time was called the Ottoman Empire. This letter was designed to be read by one of Lady Mary's personal friends.

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