Reproduced by courtesy of the
One quarto sheet of
Address leaf bearing the following postmarks: 1) black elliptical Receiving House stamp
Unpaid
14 AU
1822
A large 2 denoting the fee for a single-sheet letter has been written in black ink by the postal service across the address leaf.
The upper right corner of page three is torn.
Red wax seal.
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.
This morning brought me your very kind letter--I cannot express to you how much I am gratified & touched by your kindness & confidence--Oh may you be as happy as I wish you! And you will be so--There are some characters that make their own destiny, & your’s is one of them--& who can doubt the merits of the woman of
which I transcribe verbatim.
My dear
--Is not this delightful. You did not expect it--did you?--Nor I I am sure--Nobody did but my dear
till after th or 19th)
--Pray don't give yourself the trouble of walking to
In one of the