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It is important that this entry should be placed on record, for while, in after years, Miss Mitford speaks of herself as the only survivor of three children, _two sons having died in infancy_, it has been stated in print that “Mary Russell Mitford was their only child.” On the other hand, although careful search has been made, no record of the baptism or burial of a third child has been discovered in the Alresford registers, and we can only assume, therefore, that this child must have died at birth and on a date subsequent to that of his sister.