SD1257. Thomas Noon Talfourd to Mary Russell Mitford

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 13, 390 (in part).

Sergeant’s Inn

July 8, 1846.

My dear Miss Mitford,

I should have written yesterday to acknowledge your letter and subscription to the Haydon Fund …

I trust Miss Barrett, to whom in his last paper, irrespective of a will, Mr. Haydon leaves his papers, will not involve herself in difficulty by acting on his wishes without very sound advice, for he was (as he states) £3000 in debt, and it would be a sad thing if “our great poetess” (as I may justly call her) should be entangled in a dispute with his creditors, as she might have been by taking care of his property before, if bankruptcy or insolvency had arisen.

Text: L’Estrange (1), II, 89–90.

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