SD1468. James Thomas Fields to Mary Russell Mitford
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 309 (in part).
Boston
January 7, 1851.
My dear Miss Mitford,—A few days ago I read from one of our American newspapers a fresh paper from your delightful pen descriptive of English scenery in and about your own residence. … We intended to republish Mrs. Browning’s new edition, but another house in New York claims the right, so we give it up. …
Text: James T. Fields, Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches (Boston, 1882), pp. 34–35.
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