SD1185. Mary Russell Mitford to Henrietta Harrison

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 370 (in part).

[Three Mile Cross]

Feb. 27th, 1843.

Accept, my dear young friend, my very sincere and hearty congratulations on this approaching marriage. … Dear Miss Barrett, whose health is better, has a volume ready, but no bookseller will incur the risk of publishing poetry. Moxon says that he has lost by every one except Alfred Tennyson …

Text: Chorley, II, 2–3.

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