Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841:
'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago [...] Martinuzzzi is in a course of
performance still [...] After the fatal first night, sundry corrections & reformations were made
in the tragedy [...] The tragedy has fine things in it, but not very frequently & always broken
into chips [...] Mr Horne lent me the play -- & now I have to stutter out the truth to him in all
courtesy.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 October 1841:
'I have not heard from Mr Horne since he wrote to me of Martinuzzi .. A friend of mine, Mrs
Orme (who lived with us once as my governess & my sisters',) promised to procure for me
from Dr Stone [friend of Horne's] a copy of Martinuzzi which he had marked the margin of,
with "great laughter", "peals of laughter", as the spectators laughed where they ought to have
cried [...] It was a transcript of the impressions of the first night.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Tom Stone Print: Book
