“Many thanks; they seem puzzled with the whole thing,
and cannot make me out. What a mistake, to depreciate my beauty and my
orthodoxy!
“Ever yours,
“Sydney Smith.”
Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802-1874)
Belgian politician who was minster to the United Kingdom; he married Elizabeth, the only
daughter of Joshua Bates of Baring's Bank.
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Authors:
Saba Holland; Sarah Austin
Title:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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