Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of "Rienzi," of which I have read with unfeigned gratification [...] I have yet only read of Rienzi a few noble passages given by the Newspapers and Magazines, but in a few days I hope to be acquainted with the whole'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836:
'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and thankless in not writing my gratitude
to you the moment I felt it, for your books [...] [explains having waited until had time to do
justice to these, including one of Mitford's own] [...] My pencil has marked Emily and Fair
Rosamund and Henry Talbot The bridal Eve, The Captive & The masque of the Seasons as chief
favorites of mine. My pencil always does for me the prudent business which beans & pebbles
did for the heroes of childish romance .. marking his footsteps in the wood [...] In these
paths, these new paths -- thank you dear Miss Mitford for letting me walk in them'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for it![end italics] and you must hear that
from so many!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837:
'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest Miss Mitford, & so you will be obliged to
read my admiration upon it [goes on to discuss text in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary
Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837:
'"I read today in a magazine a tale of Miss Mitford's about the widow's dog Chloe who was
very faithful and would go back to the widow's house. If you do not know the story, I dare
say she will tell it to you. I should like to know Miss Mitford very much -- for her writings are
[italics]so[end italics] beautiful & affectionate, -- and I think she would not dislike children."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837:
'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to say of ourselves, when the "Country
stories" lie cut & read upon the table? They have the Mitford-charm all over them! [..] The
characteristic of your mind seems to be -- the power of bringing from the surfaces of things
that freshness of beauty, which others seek from in the profundities of nature [...] Indeed it is
a beautiful book'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837:
'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memoirs! My youngest brothers, to say nothing
of my eldest, were delighted with the [italics]memorabilia[end italics], I read to them out of
your letter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Letter
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838:
'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with much interest and delight'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840:
'You cant guess what my business has been lately [...] my business has been retracing my
steps in the Village, your village [...] You cannot realize, -- you the writer -- cannot, -- the
peculiar effect of that delightful book, upon one in a prison like me, shut up from air & light
[...] It frees me at once for the moment -- shows me the flowers & the grass they grow by, &
pours into my face the sweetness & freshness & refreshment of the whole summer in a
breath.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effective play.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: W.C. Macready Manuscript: Unknown
'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. Are you aware how very little the idea of writing of the public changes your mode of expression? Some of your sketches I like very much. "Hannah" I had read before, as well as the "Talking Lady," with whose portrait I was particularly struck...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Franklin Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright-tempered & feeling-hearted, -- more to me than a mere servant; since her heart works more than her hand in all she does for me!
And her delight in your Village which I gave her to read, was as true a thing as ever was that
of readers of higher degree. She says to me that if we go to Reading, she means to visit the
Village, and will know every house in it just as if it were an old place to her!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Crow Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athenaeum! -- Lady Burlington's I mean!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842:
'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flush [dog] [...] mine immediately took up the gesture of listening intently gathering his ears over his great eyes as if he saw a hare [...] & patting about his little paws everytime the word [...] "Flush" occurred. Be sure he thought I was reading about [italics]him[end italics]!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Letter
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844:
'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely little cousin Lizzie Barrett [...] Well --
that child is only ten years old, & not remarkable in any way for precocity, .. simply an
intelligent child, and fond of reading -- and she delights, quite delights in your books!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lizzie Barrett Print: Book
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835:
'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five offspring came [...] Meg took them under her especial care,
hurried them off to a couch in the ball-room, got partners for the girls, offered her own two
pretty little things up to the boys. But the youngest, Wentworth, preferred sitting all night in
the drawing room, studying the comic annual, and, that done, beginning "Belford Regis."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam Print: Book
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of last read and approved
2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as
committee
[...]
4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from
Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time
& space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.
Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an
amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.
C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the
Gramophone.
H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"
F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting
with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"
M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"
Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from
"Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.
E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of
England".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
'Our Village'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
