Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Vol. 1 of 2: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends
The earliest family document which was found in the old hamper of dusty letters that came into the hands of Miss Mit ford's executors is the proposal of marriage from her mater nal grandfather, Dr. Richard Russell, * to her grandmother, Mary Dickers. The letter, which was written on the 13th of August, 1743, has been preserved more than a hundred and twenty years, from admiration, probably, of the ingenious de vice in which the Offer is introduced; and it is now printed as a specimen of the manner in which such negotiations were conducted in the middle of the reign of George the Second.
Madam, - Though I hate lying, I am, you know, a little given to story-telling, which shall serve as a preface to what follows, being taken out of a book, whose author was no less a man than a cardinal and prime minister of France.
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