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SD1632.  Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 379 (in part).

Swallowfield

16 January 1853

I was very sorry not to see you dear friend …

I have had to-day a long letter from Mrs. Browning– She has been very ill in consequence of having very foolishly travelled over the Alps late in the year but is now better. They are to stay at Florence till March and then proceed to Rome and Naples. She speaks wretchedly of the state of Italy—but magnificently of France. I have seen three letters from Paris to-day, and they say as she says that never was it so gay or so prosperous and that war is altogether out of the question—Napoleon III is too wise; for it is the one thing that would ruin him. …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Typescript at Berkshire Record Office.

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