Supporting Documents

SD1450.  Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 303 (in part).

Three Mile Cross

8 September 1850

My dear friend,

I ought to have been ashamed of myself yesterday for not making it my very first business to send you the autograph you desired—I repair my omission now– Why I did not send it yesterday I cannot tell except for my great forgetfulness, which makes everything go out of my head and my being plunged in that strange silence of Mrs. Browning (I hope she is not ill—tell me everything you hear of her) and my obligations to yourself– …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Typescript at Berkshire Record Office.

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