Letter to <persName ref="#Haydon">B.R. Haydon</persName>, June 29, 1820. Mary Russell Mitford Eric Hood Mary Russell Mitford Society: Digital Mitford Project University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Elisa Beshero-Bondar Transcription and coding by Eric Hood Date last checked: 2014-06-02. Proofing and corrections by: Amy Colombo Lisa M. Wilson First digital edition in TEI, date: 1 July 2013. P5. 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 Any special notes on this text? (optional) You can have multiple notes here. Reading Central Library qB/TU/MIT Vol. 4, ff. 407 Letter from Mary Russell Mitford to B. R. Haydon, June 29th 1820.

Paper. Letter is written on one octavo sheet folded in thirds twice. Separate address leaf?

Address leaf bearing hourglass-shaped sepia-inked stamp reading 29 * JU 1820 N. at top left-hand edge upside down in relation to the writing of the address. Immediately to the right of the address and 90 degrees to the right, with the top of the letters along the right edge, a black-inked postal mark reading T. P. Drury Lane. Just to its left and superimposed over the address a large black number 3.

Letter complete. Address leaf has a portion at the bottom right partly torn away under missing seal.

Missing seal.

 Someone, apparently other than Mitford, perhaps cataloging letters and describing them.

Mitford’s spelling and punctuation are retained. 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.
Great Queen Street Thursday Afternoon June 29th 1820. My dear Sir

I am just returned from seeing your pictures your greyhounds your pupils--every thing but yourself. Papa goes home tomorrow & leaves me for two or three days with Miss James, Bellevue Richmond. Miss James who has the honour of knowing you begs me to say how delighted they will all be if you can spend a day with them during my stay. Can you come tomorrow? or Saturday? or Sunday? Let me know by a line to Richmond.

Daphne knew me the moment she saw me, even before she heard my voice. Our meeting was very tender. I never saw any greyhound looking so well in my life--so much like a favorite.

I have not the time to tell you how ardently I admire your picture--if I had time where should I find words!--Forgive the shabby paper--the wafer--the writing--.

Yours in great haste M.R. Mitford.
B. R. Haydon Esqre 22 Lisson Grove North Regent's Park