SD1558. Mary Russell Mitford to Charles Boner
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 360 (in part).
Swallowfield,
March 17, 1852.
My dear Friend,—
My book has been waiting I cannot tell how long for a safe conveyance to London. …
Mrs. Browning has become acquainted with Madame Sand, and is charmed with her simplicity and nobleness; very quietly dressed, of the most unpretending manners, and not a cigarette to be seen! …
Text: Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner, ed. R.M. Kettle (London, 1871), I, 224–227.
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