The puppy is arrived & will be taken great care of—What a beauty it is! PapaGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw says he never saw one more promising.—DaphneDaphne
Mitford's dog, a female greyhound. However, there is also a pug named Daphne in the Our Village sketch Our Godmothers from 3: 1828, 266-287 . That Daphne was a particularly ugly, noisy pug, that barked at every body that came into the house, and bit at most.—lmw has not yet been tried—partly because my FatherGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw has been much engaged lately & has had little coursing—but chiefly I really believe because he thinks her delicate & is so afraid of injuring her. She shall be tried soon though—for I will take her coursing myself. In the meantime we walk out together every day, & I tell her your messages, & exhort her to earn her collar. I do think DaphneDaphne
Mitford's dog, a female greyhound. However, there is also a pug named Daphne in the Our Village sketch Our Godmothers from 3: 1828, 266-287 . That Daphne was a particularly ugly, noisy pug, that barked at every body that came into the house, and bit at most.—lmw has sense enough to understand that it is a high honour to belong to Mr. HaydonBenjamin Robert Haydon | Born: 1786-01-26 in Plymouth, England. Died: 1846-06-22 in London.
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a painter educated at the Royal Academy, who was famous for contemporary, historical, classical, biblical, and mythological scenes, though tormented by financial difficulties and incarceration. He painted William Wordsworth's portrait in 1842 and painted a cameo of Keats in his epic canvas Christ's Entry into Jerusalem(1814-20). MRM was introduced to him at his London studio in the spring of 1817, and Sir William Elford was a mutual friend, and Haydon’s own acquaintances included several prominent British Romantic literary figures. He completed The Raising of Lazarus in 1823 . He wrote a diary and an autobiography, both of which were published only posthumously, and he committed suicide in 1846. George Paston's Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1893) contends that Mitford was asked to edit Haydon's memoir, but declined.—rnes, ebb. By the by you have fallen into a very natural mistake for a young sportsman in fancying that killing page 2
the hare first is the criterion of excellence in a greyhound. It has very little to do with the matter—When a hare is put up before two dogs the one nearest to her generally turns her towards the other, who comes up & turns her back again—& so they go on if evenly matched for many minutes until at last the hare is exhausted & caught by either as it happens. Now the great proof of superior speed, is, to pass the nearest dog (which in technical terms is called a go bygo-bye) & take two turns together—& this is what I am sure DaphneDaphne
Mitford's dog, a female greyhound. However, there is also a pug named Daphne in the Our Village sketch Our Godmothers from 3: 1828, 266-287 . That Daphne was a particularly ugly, noisy pug, that barked at every body that came into the house, and bit at most.—lmw will do by any greyhound of my acquaintainceacquaintance. I am afraid my explanation is not very clear—It seems to me that nobody could understand it that did not know the whole mystery beforehand—but if you wish to get a thorough insight into coursing look at the rules drawn up by the Duke of NorfolkThomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk | Born: 1538-03-10 in Kenninghall Palace, Norfolk, England. Died: 1572-06-02 in Tower Hill, London, England.
Convicted of treason and executed for the charge of involvement in the Ridolfi plot against Queen Elizabeth I to place Mary Stuart, on the English throne and so restore Catholicism in England. Howard also wrote the first complete set of English coursing rules.—esh
in Queen ElizabethElizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. | Born: 1533-09-07 in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England. Died: 1603-03-24 in Richmond Palace, Surrey, England.
The last of the Tudor monarchs, and defender of father’s instition of a Protestant Church of England, Elizabeth I was Queen of England, France, and Ireland from 1588 until her death in 1603. —ebb, rnes's day which you will find in Daniell's Rural SportsRural Sports. William Barker Daniel.
Printed in numerous editions between 1801-1817.—esh. They are the authority to all Coursers to this hour.

And your picture is really going to EdinburghEdinburgh, Lothian, Scotland | Edinburgh | Lothian | Scotland | 55.953252 -3.188266999999996 The capital and second-largest city in Scotland, located on the Firth of Forth. Site of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, and Holyrood Palace.—lmw! What an answer to Blackwood's MagazineBlackwood’s Magazine. Edinburgh: 1817-04-1980.
Founded as a Tory magazine in opposition to the Whig Edinburgh Review.—ebb![1] Mitford refers to Haydon's painting, Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem which he exhibited in Edinburgh in December 1820. See Haydon's letter to George Beaumont of 26 December 1820 in Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-Talk1 of 2350. The mention of Blackwood's likely recalls the August 1818 issue in which Haydon was attacked by the anonymous Z. who had been lambasting the Hunt and Keats circle as the Cockney School. The August 1818 article had described Haydon as that clever, but most affected artist, who as little resembles Raphael in genius as he does in person, not-withstanding the foppery of having his hair curled over his shoulders in the old Italian fashion.—ebb Will the Scotchthe people of Scotland | Scotch | Scots | Scotchmen have taste enough to find out its exquisite beauty? I hope they will—for I have a sneaking kindness for the Countrymen of HumeDavid Hume | Born: 1711-05-07 in Edinburgh, Scotland . Died: 1776-08-25 in Edinburgh, Scotland .
The most influential philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, Hume championed skepticism in various contexts. He also wrote a celebrated History of England (1754-61), which covered English history from the Roman Invasion through the reign of James II.—rnes
& SmollettTobias George Smollett | Born: 1721-03-19 in Dalquhurn, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Died: 1771-09-17 in Antignano, Tuscany, Italy.
Novelist and poet, as well as editor, translator, critic, and medical practitioner. Smollett's best-known novels were written between 1748 and 1753: The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), and The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), and his four-volume Complete History of England was published in 1754, revised in 1758 . Together with Thomas Francklin, Smollett helped edit the thirty-five volume English translation of The Works of Voltaire, from 1761-1765 . He travelled extensively in France and Italy in his last years. Source: ODNB.—ebb, esh
& BurnsRobert Burns | Born: 1759-01-25 in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. Died: 1796-07-21 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Scottish poet, author of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). Rented and farmed the 170-acre Ellisand Farm, where he built a house and collected and rewrote local songs and ballads from his neighbors. Burns's poems and songs were mostly published in posthumous collections between 1799 and 1808 .—ebb, esh
& ScottWalter Scott, Sir, Baronet, or: Sir Baronet | Born: 1771-08-15 in College Wynd, Edinburgh, Scotland. Died: 1832-09-21 in Abbotsford, near Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
Scottish advocate, antiquarian, poet, and novelist. Also worked as clerk of the Court of Session in Edinburgh. He assembled a collection of Scottish ballads, many of which had never before been printed, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, first published in 1802, but continually expanded in revised editions through 1812 . Author of the long romance poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810). From 1814-1831, Scott published 23 novels, and over the course of his literary career, he wrote review articles for the Edinburgh Review, The Quarterly Review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the Foreign Quarterly Review.—ebb, esh
& WilkieWilliam Wilkie | Born: 1721-10-05 in Echlin, Scotland. Died: 1772-10-10 in St. Andrews, Scotland.
Scottish poet and minister of Ratho, most known for his epic in nine books, The Epigoniad (1757), written in the style made popular by Alexander Pope. Locally dubbed the potatoe minister for ontinuing to work the Fisher’s Tryste farm, whose unexpired lease he inherited from his father. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews after 1759. See ODNB and Electric Scotland.—esh, ebb
—in spite of their sins—& in spite of our being Borderers on the English side. My FatherGeorge Mitford, Esq., or: George Midford | Born: . Died: .
Father of Mary Rusell Mitford, George Mitford was the son of Francis Midford, surgeon, and Jane Graham. The family name is sometimes recorded as Midford. Immediate family called him by nicknames including Drum, Tod, and Dodo. He was a member of a minor branch of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle in Northumberland. Although later sources would suggest that he was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh medical school, there is no evidence that he obtained a medical degree and he did not generally refer to himself as Dr. Mitford, preferring to style himself Esq.. In 1784, he is listed in a Hampshire directory as surgeon (medicine) of Alresford. His father and grandfather worked as apothecary-surgeons and it seems likely that he served a medical apprenticeship with family members.
He married Mary Russell on October 17, 1785 at New Alresford, Hampshire. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their addresses as Old Alresford; they later came to live at Broad Street in New Alresford. Their only child to live to adulthood, Mary Russell Mitford, was born two years later on December 16, 1787 at New Alresford, Hampshire. He assisted Mitford's literary career by representing her interests in London and elsewhere with theater owners and publishers. He was active in Whig politics and later served as a local magistrate. He coursed greyhounds with his friend James Webb.
—lmw had an Aunt[2] This aunt of George Mitford's has not yet been identified.—ebb who bred him up & with whom I liked to spend a good deal of my time whose national prejudice against her Scottish neighbors realised all that has been told of the old border hatreds. She could not bear a Scotchmanthe people of Scotland | Scotch | Scots | Scotchmen in her sight—nor one who had a drop of Scotch blood in his veins. Oh how she would have gloried in such a Champion as you! Miss JamesElizabeth Mary James, or: Miss James | Born: 1775 in Bath, Somerset, England. Died: 1861-11-25 in 3 Pembroke Villas, Richmond, Surrey, England.
Close friend and correspondent of Mary Russell Mitford. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Webb and Susanna Haycock. Her father died in 1818 and her mother in 1835. After her parents’ deaths, she lived with her two younger sisters, Emily and Susan, in Green Park Buildings, Bath, Walcot, Somerset; High Street, Mortlake, Surrey; and 3 Pembroke Villas, Richmond, Surrey. According to Coles, referring to Mitford’s diary, letters were also addressed to her at Bellevue, Lower Road, Richmond (Coles 26). She was buried at St. Mary Magdalene, Richmond, Surrey. In the 1841 census, she is listed as living on independent means; in the 1851 census, as landholder; in the 1861 census, she as railway shareholder.—lmw is just such another—albeit [unused] to the hating mood—she quite detests them. I had a letter from her the other day, & she expressed very strongly her regret at missing you—I can well believe that poor RichmondRichmond, London, England | Richmond upon Thames | Richmond | London | England | 51.46131099999999 -0.3037420000000566 Richmond upon Thames, now a borough of London, formerly part of Surrey. The Hoflands lived there and Thomas Hofland painted views of the area.—lmw looked like a faded beauty. There is nopage 4
place that requires so much fine weather, bright sunshine, blue sky, & white robed ladies, as RichmondRichmond, London, England | Richmond upon Thames | Richmond | London | England | 51.46131099999999 -0.3037420000000566 Richmond upon Thames, now a borough of London, formerly part of Surrey. The Hoflands lived there and Thomas Hofland painted views of the area.—lmw. For RichmondRichmond, London, England | Richmond upon Thames | Richmond | London | England | 51.46131099999999 -0.3037420000000566 Richmond upon Thames, now a borough of London, formerly part of Surrey. The Hoflands lived there and Thomas Hofland painted views of the area.—lmw, charming place as it is, with its rosy gardens & its brimmming river is not that fresh homely delightful thing the Country. It is rather a holiday spot for ladies & gentleman where they lead a happy out-of-door life like the gay folks in WatteauJean-Antoine Watteau | Born: 1684-10 in Valenciennes, France. Died: 1721-07-18 in Nogent-sur-Marne, France.
French painter known for his bucolic landscapes and country scenes in the Late-Baroque, or Roccoco, style.—esh
's pictures & have nothing to do with the work a day world. But I should have thought the view from the hill would have been improved by the rich tints of Autumn which would break the uniformity of those heavy masses of foliage—since to confess the truth I have often been tempted to agree with the American criticism & to think the view wanted clearing. Nevertheless it is a charming place—full of quiet elegance—& [del: 1 word.] of Miss James--its greatest attraction in my eyes.I am hoping & expecting to see her here—She threatens not to come—but she cannot have the heart to disappointpage 2
me.