SD1167. Mary Russell Mitford to Henrietta Harrison

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 5, 382.

[Three Mile Cross]

(about) Feb. 1842

Dear Miss Barrett is, I hope, rather better; still, however, confined to her bed. Her last poetical effort was on “Chaucer Modernised,” in conjunction with Mr. Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, &c. It is a charming volume, and the introduction by Mr. Horne is, I think, the best essay upon English metre in the language. Every poet ought to read it, and you would agree with every word. Do you know Mrs. Sigourney, the American poetess? she is in England at present, and I have a letter from her to-day, from which I suspect that she is coming here. I wish the season were more advanced on every account; but she must take things as she finds them. The Hewitts are in Germany.

Text: Chorley, I, 285–286.

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