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SD1785.  Mary Russell Mitford to Henry Fothergill Chorley

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

[Swallowfield]

Novr 23rd 1854

My very dear friend,

Do not let me coax you into doing what may make you ill—or hinder your recovery …

I hope you detest that odi[o]us folly of Miss Nightingale’s– You should just hear Mr. May upon that chapter– Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Jameson and Miss Bailey seem to think it worth the war that the ladies of England should have had such an opportunity. …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Typescript at Berkshire Record Office.

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