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Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 7 October 1840
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“Okeover Hall, Oct. 7, 1840.
“Dear Patmore,—
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“I am particularly desirous of your thoughts on the parts [of De Clifford] to which that name [Sourkrout] as you will see, belongs. I really had no particular person in view, as to him, or Paragraph, or Spleenwort; but put them generally for the tribe of self-sufficient, malignant critics, wherever found.

“But I forget all this is in the third volume. Au reste, I hope Bertha, and Lady Hungerford will please you, and Fothergill, and
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Manners, which last I own particularly pleases myself, though, being the channel of the Ethics and Didactics, I doubt the world. I will only add, that to Lady ——, a perfect Lady Hungerford as to mind, and as to experience of the highest monde, (being herself one of it)—I submitted all the chapters on Fashion, Vulgarity, &c., during a long visit she has been paying us, and she gave me an unqualified imprimatur.

“There! I have unburthened myself, and, as I know how valuable your time is, I will just sign my name and farewell.

“R. P. Ward.”