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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1833
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, December 1833
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Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
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Chapter IX
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December, 1833.
My dear G.,

The Ministers, you will admit (all Tory as you are), have at least sent you a most respectable man and gentleman as Dean of Lichfield. His style is, that he is a scholar, with much good sense, and with the

* The Edinburgh lawyer and physician of that name were so distinguished by Mr. Sydney Smith.—Ed.

348MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
heart of a gentleman. He was my next-door neighbour in Yorkshire, and I know him well.

We shall be in town the 18th of February; but if there is any chance of seeing you in town at all, it will be in July, one of my months of residence. Pray give over hunting. Ask Meynell to leave off. He has been pursuing the fox for thirty years. Glory has its limits, like any other pursuit.

I passed an agreeable month in London, finding the town full of my acquaintances and friends. I went to Brighton, which pleased me much; and visited the Duke of Bedford and Lord Lansdowne, at their country places. I admire the Duchess of Bedford for her wit and beauty. How are all your children? How are you?

Sydney Smith.