April 22, 2022 Mary Russell Mitford, Julius Sterling Morton, August Wilhelm Eichler, Midas Dekkers, The First Mess Cookbook by Laura Wright, and Louise Elisabeth Glück

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Happy Earth Day - a celebration that started in 1970.

1812 On this day, Mary Russell Mitford (books by this person), the English writer and poet, wrote to Sir William Elford, an English banker, politician, and amateur artist. In her letter, Mary wrote,

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures, and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly

people who take no delight in them.

1832 Birth of…