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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1829
Sydney Smith to Jonathan Gray, 10 October 1829
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Combe Florey, Taunton, Oct. 10th, 1829.
My dear Sir,

Nobody can more sincerely wish the prosperity of
300MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
the road from York to Oswaldkirk than I do. I wish to you hard materials, diligent trustees, gentle convexity, fruitful tolls, cleanly gutters, obedient parishes, favouring justices, and every combination of fortunate circumstances which can fall to the lot of any human highway. These are my wishes, but I can only wish. I cannot, from the bottom of Somersetshire, attend in person, as a letter (2s. 6d. postage) yesterday invited me to do. Perhaps you will have the goodness to scratch my name out of the list of trustees.

You will be glad to hear that I am extremely pleased with this place. Friendships and acquaintances arc not speedily replaced; but as far as outward circumstances, I am quite satisfied. If ever you come into this country I shall be very glad to see you; and I remain, dear Sir, with sincere respect and goodwill, yours truly,

Sydney Smith.

P.S.—I shall think on the 15th of my friends at the White Bear, Stillington. How honourable to English gentlemen, that, once or twice every month, half the men of fortune in England are jammed together at the White Bear, crushed into a mass at the Three Pigeons, or perspiring intensely at the Green Dragon!