“To have been a friend of Mary Russell Mitford is, paraphrasing the language of Steele, a liberal education. As a correspondent, Miss Mitford was hardly inferior to Cowper, her faculty being derived from her mother, whose letters are admirable specimens of easy, confidential, sympathetic communication. These letters are all written as to one whom the writers love and revere. Miss Barrett is one of Miss Mitford’s correspondents, all of whom seem to be inspired with a sense of excellence in the mind they are invoking. Their letters are extremely interesting, and they strike out recollections, opinions, criticisms, which will hold the reader’s delighted and serious attention.”--_Daily Telegraph._ “In this singular and probably unique book Miss Mitford is painted, not in letters of her own nor in letters written of her, but in letters addressed to her; and a true idea is thus conveyed of her talent, her disposition, and of the impression she made upon her friends. It seldom happens that anyone, however distinguished, receives such a number of letters well worth reading as were addressed to Miss Mitford; and the letters from her correspondents are not only from interesting persons, but are in themselves interesting.”--_St. James’s Gazette._ “One of the first successes of the literary season has been made by ‘Miss Mitford’s Friendships.’ It is a thoroughly literary book, in which literary subjects are dealt with by writers who were called upon by their profession to handle them. It possesses a singular interest from the effective manner in which it transports the reader into the past”--_Standard._ “No one has left a happier memory behind her than Miss Mitford. Her books are fresh with all the freshness of country life. The letters addressed to her are extremely miscellaneous; there are some characteristic ones from Cobbett, some really clever ones from Sir William Elford, and some full of pleasant gossip from Mrs. Trollope.”--_Athenæum._ “Twelve years have passed since ‘The Life of Mary Russell Mitford’ was published, and it might fairly be thought that the public was quite ready and willing to hear more of one of the most popular women and vivacious writers of the generation preceding our own. The two collections, therefore, fit and complete each other.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._ “Some of the most delightful specimens of friendly and literary correspondence which exist in the English language. On the various interesting reminiscences of Miss Mitford’s contemporaries we cannot here enlarge, but they will repay the reader’s search.”--_The Queen._ “Mr. L’Estrange gives his readers several letters written by Miss Mitford, and these will be found even more interesting than the others.”--_Globe._ “This book is in many parts highly attractive. Not the least pleasant passages in the collection are casual notices of passing acquaintances and strangers.”--_Saturday Review._