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SD1373.  Mary Russell Mitford to Charles Boner

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 15, 365 (in part).

[Three Mile Cross]

April, 2, 1849.

Thank you a thousand and a thousand times, my very dear friend, for your great goodness. …

I have heard twice of Mrs. Browning since I wrote to you, the first letter to tell me that she was safely confined with a fine boy; the second, that the mother and infant were going on well. The first letter is the only one I ever received from Mr. Browning. …

Text: Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner, ed. R.M. Kettle (London, 1871), I, 160–164.

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