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SD1387.  James Thomas Fields to Mary Russell Mitford

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 287 (in part).

Boston, U.S.A.

November 10, 1849.

Dear Miss Mitford,

Many weeks have elapsed since I received your welcome letter, and I have delayed answering it till now that I might send you a book I have been editing. …

I am busy just now superintending the republication of the complete poems of Robert Browning, the first American reprint. It will be issued by our house in a few weeks. …

Text: James T. Fields, Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches (Boston, 1882), pp. 32–33.

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