SD1762. Mary Russell Mitford to James Thomas Fields
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 373 (in part).
Swallowfield,
July 12, 1854.
Dearest Mr. Fields: Our excellent friend Mr. Bennoch will have told you from how painful a state of anxiety your most welcome letter relieved us. …
Also Mrs. Browning (while in Italy) wrote to me to inquire if you would like to bring out a new poem by her, and a new work by her husband. I told her that I could not doubt it, but that she had better write duplicate letters to London and to Boston. …
Text: James T. Fields, Yesterdays with Authors (Boston, 1901), pp. 344–346.
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