Supporting Documents

SD2930.  Frances Elinor Colvile to Jane Maria Strachey

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 375 (in part).

Craigflower.

Dunfermline.

N.B.

Saturday Evening. [5 October 1867] [1]

Dearest Janie,

I have just had an argument with James & Colin Mackenzie about the Reform Bill. …

I read bits of Paracelsus to James last night—he was free to confess they were fine, & said as I read it I made it run more smoothly. I denied any merit to the manner. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: India Office Records.

1. Year conjectured by placement of letter in collection.

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