SD1206.1. Harriet Martineau to Richard Webb

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 8.

Tynemouth

29 March [1844]

My dear Sir

I thank you for sending me the pleasure of our dear friend’s letter. …

I have not see the “New Spirit of the Age,”—(though I am aware of one error of fact in the notice of myself,—the dedication of my late Vol being supposed to be to Miss Barrett,—who is much too young for it to be applicable to her,)—& I know nothing of the portraits, except that mine is taken from a miniature wh is not approved by my friends. …

Publication: The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau, ed Deborah Anna Logan (London, 2007), 2, 268.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Dublin.

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