SD1246. Mary Russell Mitford to Charles Boner
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 12, 370 (in part).
[Three Mile Cross]
[ca. 23 February 1846]
I thank you heartily my dear Mr Boner for your very interesting letter … I yesterday received from Miss Barrett, a very interesting letter sent to her by Miss Martineau—she will get into her cottage before April & gives a charming account of her terrace her field & her quarry whence she got the stones for her terrace wall & which she means to hang with ivies & honeysuckles & tuft with foxgloves & ferns– … I am going to Paris in May dear Mr Boner– Can you help me to any letters of Introduction—not to grand people of course, but to such as you would like to see yourself. The man whom I should best like to know is I am afraid not seeable—Beranger. Think of this dear friend—a very clever & very excellent young man is to escort me & probably a young lady & being artistic would like to know any actor or musician– I think to spend six weeks there– Miss Barrett & Mr Kenyon say that I shall not go, which if I wanted a motive to keep my resolution would of course supply one. Miss Barrett is so much better that she sits up in an armchair & walks across her room although she does not leave it– Can you help her & me to any titles of French novels—any Balzacs or Charles de Bernards?– …
Address, on integral page: Charles Boner Esqre / St Emeron / Ratisbon / Bavaria / Chez le / Prince de Tour & Tasis.
Publication: Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner, ed. R.M. Kettle (London, 1871), I, 91–94.
Manuscript: Yale University.
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