SD1789. Mary Russell Mitford to Henry Fothergill Chorley

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

[Swallowfield]

Novr 30th 1854

Shall we say Sunday the 11th dearest friend? You see I clutch at the earliest day—if that do not suit you let me know. …

Poor Madame Dudevant! I have never felt the slightest desire to look on so sad a sight as the greatest gifts ever bestowed on one of our sex so abused– Mrs Browning’s account of her (she had evidently never heard of Mrs Browning) was profoundly melancholy, she seems to have suffered the worship offered to her by men & women with a grave indifference—perhaps a little mingled with disgust– …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berkshire Record Office.

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