837. EBB to Mary Russell Mitford
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 5, 100.
[Torquay]
[Postmark: 30 July 1841]
<***> I had a kind note & some stanzas of much beauty from Mr Townsend yesterday, & a visit from him today. That is, he called at the door in passing through Torquay to Devonport. Very kind!– But of course I could’nt see him. [1]
Address: Miss Mitford / Three Mile Cross / near Reading.
Publication: EBB-MRM, I, 254 (as 31 July 1841).
Manuscript: Wellesley College.
1. These sentences are written on an envelope. It is possible that they form the missing conclusion of letter 835.
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