Letter to T.N. Talfourd, 12 August 1825

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         <p>A thousand thanks <persName ref="#Talfourd_Thos">my dear friend</persName> for all your kindness--I am better--the abscess has burst 
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Letter to T.N. Talfourd, 12 August 1825 Mary Russell Mitford Amy Colombo Mary Russell Mitford Society: Digital Mitford Project University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Elisa Beshero-Bondar Transcription and coding by Amy Colombo Proofreading against the manuscript by Elisa Beshero-Bondar First digital edition in TEI, date: 2 June 2014. P5. Edition made with help from photos taken by Digital Mitford editors The Digital Mitford editors' photos from this archive are not permitted for public distribution. Photo files: DSCN1180.jpg, DSCN1181.jpg, DSCN0942.jpg, DSCN0943.jpg Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive Greensburg, PA, USA 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the The John Rylands University Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Digital Mitford Letters: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive The John Rylands University Library Mitford-Talfourd Correspondence: Letters from Mary Russell Mitford to Thomas Noon Talfourd: vol. 665 JRL English MS 665 no. 21 Coles no.93 Letter from Mary Russell Mitford to T.N. Talfourd, 1825 August 12.

Quarto sheet of paper (likely torn from folio sheet folded in half to form four quarto pages) with correspondence on 1 and address leaf on page 2, then folded in thirds twice more and sealed for posting.

Address leaf bears postmarks: 1) black circular mileage stamp Reading READING AU12 1825

A large handwritten X (in another hand than Mitford's) is placed above the name J. B. Monck on the address leaf, indicating this letter was franked through Monck.

A thousand thanks my dear friend for all your kindness--I am better--the abscess has burst externally & all will soon be well--I hope you will approve of the enclosed--They do not--but it satisfies my own feelings and surely he will not & cannot make an ill use of it.1 "They" perhaps refers to Mitford's parents. "He" refers to William Macready. Mitford enclosed a copy of her letter to Mr. Macready dated August 12th 1825 with this letter to Talfourd. The letter (in the Rylands Collection immediately following this one, JRL #22, and currently being edited for the Digital Mitford project) documents Mitford's rift with Macready, who believed she had written a piece under the pseudonym "Philo-Dramaticus" recently published in Blackwood's Magazine, complaining about the state of the London stage, criticizing the excessive power of actor-managers like Macready, and their abuse of authors. In the enclosed copy of the letter to Macready, Mitford assures him that she had nothing to do with the piece: "In answer to your enquiries I can only say that I knew nothing of the article in question till I saw it with great regret a few days afgter the publication in Blackwood's Magazine." Mitford appears to have seen the Philo-Dramaticus letter on the decline of the English stage as it was reprinted in The Observer of 20 June 1825, based on her letter to Talfourd of 29 June .--Pray tell me if you approve it for I am very anxious till I hear--You see that I have committed no one.--I shall tell William Harness To send "Charles" to you next week on his return--I write in great haste to save the cross post & am still weak--Tell dear Mrs Talfourd & Mr. Rutt how much I regret having been the occasion of a fresh worry & fright to them & to you--I hope the little girl is well--.

Ever your's yours M.R. Mitford I shall desire the play to be sent to the Temple Reading August twelve 1825
T.N. TalfourdEsqure Oxford Circuit J.B.Monck

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Letter to T.N. Talfourd, 12 August 1825 Mary Russell Mitford Amy Colombo Mary Russell Mitford Society: Digital Mitford Project University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Elisa Beshero-Bondar Transcription and coding by Amy Colombo Proofreading against the manuscript by Elisa Beshero-Bondar First digital edition in TEI, date: 2 June 2014. P5. Edition made with help from photos taken by Digital Mitford editors The Digital Mitford editors' photos from this archive are not permitted for public distribution. Photo files: DSCN1180.jpg, DSCN1181.jpg, DSCN0942.jpg, DSCN0943.jpg Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive Greensburg, PA, USA 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the The John Rylands University Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Digital Mitford Letters: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive The John Rylands University Library Mitford-Talfourd Correspondence: Letters from Mary Russell Mitford to Thomas Noon Talfourd: vol. 665 JRL English MS 665 no. 21 Coles no.93 Letter from Mary Russell Mitford to T.N. Talfourd, 1825 August 12.

Quarto sheet of paper (likely torn from folio sheet folded in half to form four quarto pages) with correspondence on 1 and address leaf on page 2, then folded in thirds twice more and sealed for posting.

Address leaf bears postmarks: 1) black circular mileage stamp Reading READING AU12 1825

A large handwritten X (in another hand than Mitford's) is placed above the name J. B. Monck on the address leaf, indicating this letter was franked through Monck.

A thousand thanks my dear friend for all your kindness--I am better--the abscess has burst externally & all will soon be well--I hope you will approve of the enclosed--They do not--but it satisfies my own feelings and surely he will not & cannot make an ill use of it."They" perhaps refers to Mitford's parents. "He" refers to William Macready. Mitford enclosed a copy of her letter to Mr. Macready dated August 12th 1825 with this letter to Talfourd. The letter (in the Rylands Collection immediately following this one, JRL #22, and currently being edited for the Digital Mitford project) documents Mitford's rift with Macready, who believed she had written a piece under the pseudonym "Philo-Dramaticus" recently published in Blackwood's Magazine, complaining about the state of the London stage, criticizing the excessive power of actor-managers like Macready, and their abuse of authors. In the enclosed copy of the letter to Macready, Mitford assures him that she had nothing to do with the piece: "In answer to your enquiries I can only say that I knew nothing of the article in question till I saw it with great regret a few days afgter the publication in Blackwood's Magazine." Mitford appears to have seen the Philo-Dramaticus letter on the decline of the English stage as it was reprinted in The Observer of 20 June 1825, based on her letter to Talfourd of 29 June .--Pray tell me if you approve it for I am very anxious till I hear--You see that I have committed no one.--I shall tell William Harness To send "Charles" to you next week on his return--I write in great haste to save the cross post & am still weak--Tell dear Mrs Talfourd & Mr. Rutt how much I regret having been the occasion of a fresh worry & fright to them & to you--I hope the little girl is well--.

Ever your's yours M.R. Mitford I shall desire the play to be sent to the Temple Reading August twelve 1825
T.N. TalfourdEsqure Oxford Circuit J.B.Monck