MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs BROWNING,
(Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, Poet and wife of Robert) saying that she "does indeed rejoice, my very dear friend at the exceedingly pleasant manner in which the book ... is being noticed in the papers - It may do good - you must not think me unkind if it be some time before I can convey the copies in my hands & those coming to me to their destined owners. Unluckily every one lives beyond a walk & I have no means of getting them to the different persons except by taking them myself - since you left me I have had a severe attack of neuralgia pain in the face - which is almost always brought on by driving in the winter in an open carriage - so that I have been obliged to give up going anywhere beyond a walk for the present - indeed in the winter I never do get into the pony chaise without suffering severely - However I will continue to take them as soon as I can - & real difference there is none between an immediate delivery & a delay which I should of course explain as being caused by myself & not by you - That first volume of Mrs Browning must be as heavy as lead - & I should fear would go far to weigh down the ... portions of her poems - odd sort of criticisms the Leader has - I see Mr Home's Duchess of Malfi has stopped - but hard as the construction of Webster is his own is a million times worse - with Webster's five bits. I see that the Smuggler by James is published in the Parlor Library - let me have that please dear friend. Tom Cringle's Log if I have not got it which your bookseller will know & any ore of James's as they come out - love to the Mrs Bennetts ...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., no place, no date, together with an engraving of Mitford from the drawing by F. R. Say, 9½" x 7"
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41207
£675
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist & Dramatist)
Brief Autograph Letter signed to Mrs Acton TINDAL
(Henrietta Euphemia Harrison, 1817-1879) Poet and Novelist) saying “Thank you my beloved friend! Be assured that you have been amongst the blessings of my existence - May God bless you all! Ever your affectionate...”, 1 side sm. 8vo.,with original autograph envelope, with a pencil annotation “A letter very dear to me!”, Swallowfield, Monday, no date but postmarked 23rd February
Item Date:
1854
Stock No:
41544
£125
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MITFORD
(Nancy, 1904-1973, Author)
Fine Long ALS ('Nancy Mitford') to Madame del Riego
(Teresa Clotilde, 1876-1968, Violinist, Pianist, Singer and Composer of Spanish ancestry), thanking her for her letter "it was so kind of you to write exactly the sort of praise one loves to receive. Most people don't really read what one writes, only what they themselves imagine. Half the letters I got were to order me to book rooms at 'Ste Fay' - how much with full pension! ... So you do see that yours made a change! ...", 2 sides 8vo., Rue Monsieur VII, Suffron 7665, 12th August
Item Date:
1961
Stock No:
38846
£245
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir', probably Samuel Carter Hall, 1800-1889,
asking that "(if it is not inserted in this Month's Magazine) you will have the goodness to send the M.S. of the little article on the Cottage Gardens together with the next No. to W.W. Ogbourne Esq.", and asking him to confirm that "there is the paper of this series in this New Monthly", with a magnificent engraving "by A. Collas's Patent Process" of a Gothic memorial plaque to Miss Mitford signed by L.W. Wyon, 8½" x 6¾", the letter 1 side 8vo., no place, no date, c.
each laid down and further laid down on an A4 filing sheet
Item Date:
1835
Stock No:
19948
£175
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Portion of an autograph letter expressing her belief in the mercy and goodness of God, 2 sides of half of 1 sheet 8vo., n.p., n.d.
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
18380
£10
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