Life

My friend invited me to go to Hamburg for a day to hang out with her in February 15, my sister is coming tomorrow, I have finals on Thursday and Monday, and I am seriously considering the possibility of going out of my cotton-picking mind.

Why does this sound so much to me like Irene Adler?

from the Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:

( THE countess of Cozelle is kept prisoner in a melancholy castle )

This seems to contain the germ of the idea of Sherlock Holmes' literary adversary, Irene Adler... I cannot find any other reference of a countess of Cozelle anywhere, and I wonder if it's not a Pseudonym.