Supporting Documents

SD1694.  Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 376 (in part).

Swallowfield

12 October 1853

My dear friend,

Your kind letter and the parcel arrived to-day– …

… it is the Brownings and Tennyson, and a great many others whose sins against grammar and taste and clearness are beginning to be strongly felt– …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Typescript at Berkshire Record Office.

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