SD1211. Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Partridge

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 315–316 (in part).

[Three Mile Cross]

June 19th 1844

I am just long enough returned from London to have got over a little of its pleasant fatigue … The dark room in Wimpole Street was a great contrast to these scenes. Oh, how I more and more love to admire its sweet and precious inmate! There is nothing like her in this world—that is certain. Tell dear Mrs Anderdon that I attacked Mr Barrett on the subject of getting her out of town; and having left Mr Kenyon to follow up the blow, I have great hopes that a change may be effected. Her book (in two vols.) is still printing. It will place her more and more in the situation of Wordsworth forty years ago—the foundress of a school of enthusiastic worshippers—laughed at by those who do not feel high poetry. …

Text: Chorley, I, 214–215.

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