SD1580. Mary Russell Mitford to John Lucas

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 366 (in part).

Swallowfield

June 3rd, 1852.

My dear Friend,—Mr. Fields, my best and kindest American friend will bring you this note—you are worthy to know one another. It says at once what I think of him when I tell you I have just given him your Portrait of me—given it to him in reversion that is …

God knows whether I shall be able to get to Town next month to meet the Brownings and John Ruskin, at present I am rather lamer than two months ago, but if I do come I shall be sure to let you know. …

Ever most gratefully & faithfully yours,

M. R. Mitford

Text: Arthur Lucas, John Lucas: Portrait Painter 1828–1874 (London, 1910), p. 74.

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