SD833.1. Mary Russell Mitford to Henrietta Harrison

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 3, 334 (in part).

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November 8th, 1837

Your affectionate letter, my dear young friend, has given me great pleasure; the feeling that my writings have excited occasionally in minds like yours—minds where ingenuousness blends with talent—is in itself a reward of many trials, and of much wearying labour. I am delighted, too, that you like our book. Two of the writers, Mr. Kenyon and Miss Barrett (E.B.B.), are very remarkable persons; the first, one of those first-rate London men, whose talk bears so high a value, and whose character (in the present instance) is as sure as his talent; whilst the second is a young and lovely woman, who lives the life of a hermitess in Gloucester Place, has translated “The Prometheus Bound,” the most difficult play of Æschylus, in a manner that is the admiration of scholars—and who passes her life in teaching her younger brothers Greek. She, too, is much pleased with our book; and you will be glad to hear that it is universally well spoken of, and called the Annual of the year, as well for its letter-press as its getting-up. …

Text: Chorley, I, 270.

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