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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1831
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, December 1831
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Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
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Combe Florey, December, 1831.
My dear Mrs. Meynell,

I behave well, always well, but you have a little infirmity,—tactility, or touchiness. Pray guard against this; it grows upon you; and do not be angry with me for telling you this, for that would be an odd way of proving you were innocent of the charge.

Lord Grey is well; the King firm; the Bill will pass, partly by the defalcation of its opponents, partly by the creation of peers. Cholera will spread all over England. Read nothing about it, and say nothing about it; but when you are in the cold stage, send for one of my letters and place it near your heart, and your foolish doctor will ascribe your recovery to himself.

I had no idea Mrs. Partington would make such a fortune; I sent my speech to nobody, but it was co-
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pied into the ‘Times.’ I am told it is up at the caricature shops, but I did not see it.

Your faithful and affectionate friend,
Sydney Smith.