| Description | (Includes some lines of verse by "a young & beautiful girl just going to India" [Mary Anne Parry] "Upon being asked if Miss M[itford] was old;" news from Miss Mitford's publisher; an observation concerning frequent cutting down trees ("I account it a felicity to have lived & written in England whilst there were still trees & commons in the land"; and a comment on Louis Napoleon ("the one great man of this day.").) |