How can you be so careless ?--is it because you don't love writing?
You should remember I want to know you are safe at Durham.

I shall imagine you have had some fall from your horse, or ill accident by the way, without regard to probability; there is nothing too extravagant for a woman's and a lover's fears.

Did you receive my last letter?
if you did not, the direction is wrong, you won't receive this, and my question is in vain.
I find I begin to talk nonsense, and 'tis time to leave off.

Pray, my dear, write to me, or I shall be very mad." Montagu was, not to put too fine a point on it, a careless husband.

Not only did he neglect to write to his wife, but he neglected, or forgot, to keep her adequately supplied with money.