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MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787-1855)
One-page autograph letter signed ("M.R. Mitford"), to B.B. Thatcher, Esq., 8°, [1838], discussing Mrs Hales's Volumes, "Except a touch of protestant bigotry in the Catholic convert & a little too much operation of American Freedom ... there is nothing which anyone can find fault with".
Autograph letter signed ("M.R.M."), to William Cox Bennett, 2pp., 12°, [1848], "I had feared dear Mr. Bennett that the advancing beacon's shortening days would prevent your excursion by the side of the Thames. I should have regretted it more had not my health continued so bad as to diminish my pleasure in seeing more friends whose society used to give me the most gratification." She encloses his share of "a packet from America" and asks him to send back Mr. Field's letter, praising him, "you could not have a better introduction to the American Public." With James T. Fields's reply indicating that he has already published Bennett's sonnet to Keats.
Autograph letter signed ("M.R. Mitford"), to Mrs Browning, 4pp., 18°, [n.d.], regarding deliveries and criticisms of books, mentioning The Smuggler and Tom Cringle's Log. With an engraving of M.R.M. (5)
One-page autograph letter signed ("M.R. Mitford"), to B.B. Thatcher, Esq., 8°, [1838], discussing Mrs Hales's Volumes, "Except a touch of protestant bigotry in the Catholic convert & a little too much operation of American Freedom ... there is nothing which anyone can find fault with".
Autograph letter signed ("M.R.M."), to William Cox Bennett, 2pp., 12°, [1848], "I had feared dear Mr. Bennett that the advancing beacon's shortening days would prevent your excursion by the side of the Thames. I should have regretted it more had not my health continued so bad as to diminish my pleasure in seeing more friends whose society used to give me the most gratification." She encloses his share of "a packet from America" and asks him to send back Mr. Field's letter, praising him, "you could not have a better introduction to the American Public." With James T. Fields's reply indicating that he has already published Bennett's sonnet to Keats.
Autograph letter signed ("M.R. Mitford"), to Mrs Browning, 4pp., 18°, [n.d.], regarding deliveries and criticisms of books, mentioning The Smuggler and Tom Cringle's Log. With an engraving of M.R.M. (5)