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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1834
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, July 1834
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Chapter I
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Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
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Chapter IX
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Combe Florey, July, 1834.
My dear Mrs. Meynell,

The thought was sudden, so was the execution: I saw I was making no progress in London, and I resolved to run the risk of the journey. I performed it with pain, and found on my arrival at my own door my new carriage completely disabled. I called on no one, but went away without beat of drum. I know nothing of public affairs—I have no pleasure in think-
350MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
ing of them, and turn my face the other way, deeply regretting the abrupt and unpleasant termination of Lord Grey’s political life.

I am making a slow recovery; hardly yet able to walk across the room, nor to put on a christian shoe. On Monday I shall have been ill for a month. Perhaps it is a perquisite of my time of life, to have the gout or some formidable illness. We enter and quit the world in pain! but let us be just however; I find my eyesight much improved by gout, and I am not low-spirited.

Pray let me hear from you from time to time, as you shall from me. Remember me to the handsome widow with handsome daughters; and believe me, my dear G., yours affectionately,

Sydney Smith.