SD1259. Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Partridge

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

[Three Mile Cross]

July 9th, 1846.

Whenever you like to have H____’s pretty little daughter she will be ready for you, though being only a month old last Saturday she can hardly yet travel alone. They are the forwardest puppies ever known—their mother having abandoned them, and they at their early days eating and sleeping without her, cuddled up together. I only hope she may be to you the comfort her dear father and brother have been to Miss Barrett and me. … Poor Mr. Haydon has left his [papers], consisting of twenty-six large volumes of Diary, to Elizabeth Barrett.

Text: Chorley, I, 222–223.

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