SD1551. Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 359 (in part).

[Three Mile Cross]

[Postmark: 20 February 1852]

… I had yesterday a letter from Mrs Browning containing a most interesting account of Madame Sand whom she had seen– She continues to denounce the horrible lies of the English press about Louis Napoleon– They said that George Sand was exiled to her country house—how she came to Paris to get a commutation of sentence for a friend—how the Prince President, who shook hands with her & granted her request. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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