"The letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu descriptive of her travels during her husband's embassy to the [Sublime] Porte ... so faithfully delineative of European and Turkish manners ... must always stand ... amongst the most elegant models of epistolary correspondence that ever adorned our national Literature." cf. Preface.
Better known as her “Turkish Letters”, as they were written during her travels to and from Constantinople (Istanbul) during Edward Wortley Montagu’s embassy to the Ottomans. It includes her best known missive (XXXI) on smallpox inoculation.