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SD1518.  Mary Russell Mitford to Jane Ouvry

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 275 (in part).

Swallowfield– Reading

[October 1851]

I have only a moment dearest Mrs Ouvry in which to convey to you my sincere sympathy in your great loss– …

I was a week in London close to Mrs Browning who is walking about like other people—with a pretty little boy to whom it is odd to hear the English father, English mother & English nurse talk Italian– They are gone to winter in Paris. I grieve to say that Mr Barrett refuses all reconciliation & sent her back a packet of all the letters she had written to him since her marriage with the seals unbroken– …

Publication: Chorley, II, 120–121 (in part).

Manuscript: Reading Central Library.

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