SD2547. Maria Hamerton to Joseph Milsand

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 342 (in part).

[Fontainebleau]

December 29th 61–

I cannot do better on the close of this old year than take up my pen to chat with a valued old friend like yourself … I hope you have seen your friend Mr. Browning, I think you now spend your Christmas day with his relations, is he in Paris, how heavy the heart is at this moment; how the dear ones are missed; and one can’t help sighing for their departure, this is a year of trial to many both public & private, I never felt so much regret for any public character as for Prince Albert— …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive.

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