SD1544. Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 279 (in part).

Swallowfield

30 January 1852

Thanks upon thanks dearest Mr. Bennett for your unwearied kindness. … Fancy Mrs. Browning making herself miserable about my mention of her brother! Is not it absurd? 15 years after, and after she herself had run away.– A French Professor giving lectures upon English Poetry in Paris seems to have got hold of my book, as a sort of text book– So that was the way she heard it first—but really I have no sympathy for such morbidity of feeling—or rather such affection—as well might poor Mrs. Warburton take a fit of agony 15 years hence at the name of The Amazon– Is not it absurd? …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Typescript at Berkshire Record Office.

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