“Pray take care of yourself. We shall both be a brown
infragrant powder in thirty or forty years. Let us contrive to last out for the
same, or nearly the same time. Weary will the latter half of my pilgrimage be,
if you leave me in the lurch.
“Ever your affectionate brother,
“Sydney Smith.”
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Source Description:
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).
Electronic Edition:
Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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