Crossword-Solution: MITFORD 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Its nucleus was composed of the following members: Seymour Egerton, afterwards Lord Wilton, Sir Archibald Macdonald my brother-in-law, Fred Clay, Bertie Mitford (the present Lord Redesdale—perhaps the finest amateur cornet and trumpet player of the day), and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald.

The village street might be Miss Mitford's, the well-to-do house Jane Austen's own fancy, in its warm brick and comfortable decorum.

The conversation afterwards turned upon plays, and Macready, who had ignored a half-joking question of Miss Mitford, whether, if she wrote one, he would act in it, overtook Browning as they were leaving the house, and said, 'Write a play, Browning, and keep me from going to America.' The reply was, 'Shall it be historical and English; what do you say to a drama on Strafford?' This ready response on the poet's part showed that Strafford, as a dramatic subject, had been occupying his thoughts.

Mitford proposes "continent," in the sense of--restraining from violence.] [Footnote 69: this] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."] [Footnote 70: martial] So the 4to.--The 8vo "materiall."] [Footnote 71: our] So the 4to.--The 8vo "your."] [Footnote 72: With] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Which."] [Footnote 73: thy servant's] He means Sigismund.

Doctor Mitford was an old classmate of his who lived in a neighbouring city and who occasionally called upon him in the case of a consultation.