SD1311. Mary Russell Mitford to Emily E. Jephson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 370 (in part).

Three Mile Cross

[ca. March 1847]

Did you hear that my beloved friend Elizabeth Barrett is married? Love really is the wizard the poets have called him; a fact which I always doubted till now. But never was such a miraculous proof of his power as her travelling across France by diligence, by railway, by Rhone boat—anyhow, in fact; and having arrived in Pisa so much improved in health that Mrs. Jameson, who travelled with them, says she is “not merely improved but transformed.” I do not know Mr. Browning; but this fact is enough to make me his friend. He is a poet also; but I believe that his acquirements are more remarkable than his poetry, although that has been held to be of high promise. …

Address: Miss Jephson / Castle Martyr / Ireland.

Text: L’Estrange (2), III, 204–205 (as Spring, 1846).

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