SD1200. Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Partridge

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 334 (in part).

[Three Mile Cross]

10 January 1844

Thanks upon thanks dearest Mrs Partridge for your most kind affection– …

Miss Barrett is better—having gotten the better of a severe cough– Surely the boys cannot be so dangerously affected! She is busy with her book which is not out yet– I don’t know what the title is to be, but it is to be published by Moxon, & doubtless will be well advertised as his books always are. She often asks for you, & always with strong interest[.] …

Address: Mrs Partridge / at Oliver Anderdon’s Esqre / 24 Bedford Place / Russell Square / London.

Docket, in unidentified hand: Miss Barratt [sic] & “her new book.”

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

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