SD1784. Mary Russell Mitford to Henrietta Tindal

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 368 (in part).

[Swallowfield]

Nov. 21st., 1854.

How more than kind you and your dear people are to me. … Mr. and Mrs. Browning’s books are advancing towards completion: they have been in hand these three years. His are lyrics, of which she has only seen some; hers a fictitious autobiography in blank verse, of which he has not seen one word, though four thousand lines are written—a strange reserve! …

Text: Chorley, II, 79–80.

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