SD1662. Mary Russell Mitford to James Thomas Fields

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 369 (in part).

Swallowfield

June 4, 1853.

I write at once, dearest friend, to acknowledge your most kind and welcome letter. …

I do not think that I did write to thank you for dear Dr. Holmes’s “Lecture on English Poetesses” … I also told Mrs. Browning what dear Dr. Holmes said of her. The American poets whom she prefers are Lowell and Emerson. … Also Mrs. Browning believes in spirit-rapping stories,-all,-and tells me that Robert Owen has been converted by them to a belief in a future state. …

Text: James T. Fields, Yesterdays with Authors (Boston, 1901), pp. 330-333.

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