SD846. Anna Brownell Jameson to Mary Russell Mitford

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 333 (in part).

Ealing,

Saturday. [1838]

I must have seemed a thankless wretch, my dear Miss Mitford, but ever since my return home I have been very poorly, and miserable, and good for nothing. My visit to you was fraught with new ideas, and I brought away a most agreeable impression of “Our Village,” as well as of my kind hostess. Will you not be tempted to pause some day on your way to town, and peep at me in my tiny cell?

Your Œnophera (or Œnephora, which is it?) is in the ground and flourishing apparently—a very pretty memorial of my visit.

I have written to Miss Barrett, expressing the gratitude I felt, without volunteering any uncalled-for, uninvited criticism.

Believe me, ever truly yours,

Anna Jameson.

Text: L’Estrange (1), II, 34.

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