Letter to <persName ref="#Webb_Mary_younger">Mary Webb</persName>, January 9, 1820 Mary Russell Mitford Lisa M. Wilson Mary Russell Mitford Society: Digital Mitford Project University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Elisa Beshero-Bondar Transcription and coding by Anaya Phoenix Lisa M. Wilson First digital edition in TEI, date: July 1, 2018. P5. Edition made with help from photos taken by Digital Mitford editors Digital Mitford photo files: DSCF9008.jpg, DSCF9009.jpg, DSCF9010.jpg, DSCF9011.jpg, DSCF9012.jpg, DSCF9013.jpg, DSCF9014.jpg, DSCF9016.jpg, DSCF9017.jpg, DSCF9018.jpg, DSCF9019.jpg, DSCF9020.jpg Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive Greensburg, PA, USA 2013

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Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Digital Mitford Letters: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive Reading Central Library The letters of Mary Russell Mitford, vol. 4, 1819-1823 Letter from Mary Russell Mitford to Mary Webb, 1820 January 9. Dated Sunday evening. We arrived at this date by checking a perpetual calendar and Mitford's journal.

One sheet of 18.5 mm x 11.2 mm paper, two surfaces photographed. Folded in half once.

No postmarks.

Sheet (pages three and four) torn on right edge of page three where wax seal was removed.

Red wax seal, partial, adhered to page four.

 Someone, apparently other than Mitford, perhaps cataloging letters and describing them, who left grey pencil marks and numbered her letters now in the Reading Central Library's collection. This letter labeled: [9 Jan. 1820] on page one.

Mitford’s spelling and punctuation are retained, except where a word is split at the end of a line and the beginning of the next in the manuscript. Where Mitford’s spelling and hyphenation of words deviates from the standard, in order to facilitate searching we are using the TEI elements “choice," “sic," and “reg" to encode both Mitford’s spelling and the regular international standard of Oxford English spelling, following the first listed spelling in the Oxford English Dictionary. The long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.

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[9 Jan. 1820] Sunday Eveng .

Our letters crossed, my dear friend, & I write this tiny note to thank you for your kind and sweet one & to beg you to take great care of yourself. I don't like coughs & colds & headaches when they assail my own Mary Webb.--My cold is much better, but just now I am almost ill of a fright--Lucy poor thing has had a tremendous fall tonight on the Ice and we were afraid of her head, not the strongest part of the poor faithful maid who is naturally very nervous & hysterical--the only comfort is she was not sick--but still though she has lost much blood. she wanders at times & talks incessantly.--

Poor Haydon is in great trouble--his Daphne (once my Miranda) is ill--She has the distemper, & he writes to me for advice & pity--& gets advised & pitied to his hearts heart's content--He is to have a puppy in the spring so I shall not need to trouble you dear Papa for any of his -- for if "the agreeable friend" comes I will come & see him--a compliment I would hardly pay to anyone else in the world.--Adieu my own dear love--I mean Papa to take this to Sessions & I will write on the outside how Lucy is at the latest hour--I know you will be sorry for her. Adieu once more--God bless you. Love to all.

Ever yours M. R. Mitford.
To Miss Webb Wokingham