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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1819
Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 30 July 1819
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Foston, July 30th, 1819.
My dear Jeffrey,

I hear you are going to Brougham’s. I should like most exceedingly to meet you there, but it is hardly possible. Poor Playfair!

You have never told me how your little girl is.

MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH. 181

What do you think will become of all these political agitations? I am strongly inclined to think, whether now or twenty years hence, that Parliament must be reformed. The case that the people have is too strong to be resisted; an answer may be made to it, which will satisfy enlightened people perhaps, but none that the mass will be satisfied with. I am doubtful whether it is not your duty and my duty to become moderate Reformers, to keep off worse.

We are upon the eve here of a good harvest, and I have just finished twenty acres of hay. I am far gone in agriculture. God bless you, my dear friend!

Ever yours,
Sydney Smith.