Correspondence

1168.  EBB to Mary Russell Mitford

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 350.

[London]

Saturday [?4] [March 1843] [1]

Ever dearest Miss Mitford– In the greatest of possible hurries, .. on the very verge of post-ruin, .. I write to let you know that the gentleman whose address you sent me, is in town.

You will have received a letter from me today I hope. [2]

Thank you twenty times (in short hand) for telling me of the prosperity of the subscription. I overflow with gladness in considering yours—& with loyalty too!—but for ‘God save the queen’ there is no more time. [3] May God bless you.

Your EBB

Publication: EBB-MRM, II, 184.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Dated by the previous letter, in which EBB gives Kenyon the latest news about the subscription.

2. Letter 1164.

3. As mentioned in letter 1167, Queen Victoria had subscribed £25.

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