Probably John Kenyon, whom Miss Mitford elsewhere calls 'the pleasantest man in London;' he, on his side, said of Miss Mitford that 'she was better and stronger than any of her books.'

[45]

Nineteen years, Miss Mitford having been born in 1787.

[46]

Recollections of a Literary Life, by Mary Russell Mitford, p. 155 (1859).

[47]

i.e. copies of the Essay on Mind.