SD2253. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Marianne Gaskell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 355 (in part).

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[?late March 1859]

My dearest Polly,

Meta & Louy are working hard at the dining-room table, mending your pink gown; … One from Tottie [Fox-Bridell], which I am sorry to say I lost as soon as read, or you should have seen it. She describes her husband as very charming, & seems very happy. She was nearly asking Mrs. Schwabe to the wedding, but Mrs. S. had a grand ball the night before, so Tottie thought it would not do to ask her. Mr. & Mrs. Browning were there, & the Bridells dined with the Browning in the evening of their wedding day. …

Publication: The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell, ed. J.A.V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard (Manchester, 1966), pp. 545–547.

Manuscript: Leeds University.

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