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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1818
Sydney Smith to Lady Jane Davy, [May 1818]
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Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
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[Note.] Holland House.
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You are of an ardent mind, and overlook the difficulties and embarrassments of life. Luttrell, before I taught him better, imagined muffins grew! He was wholly ignorant of all the intermediate processes of sowing, reaping, grinding, kneading, and baking. Now you require a prompt answer; but mark the
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difficulties: your note comes to Weymouth-street, where I am not; then by the post to Holland House, where, as I am not a marquis, and have no servant, it is tossed on the porter’s table; and when found and answered, will creep into the post late this evening, if the postman is no more drunk than common.

Pray allow for these distressing embarrassments, with which human intercourse is afflicted; and believe how happy I shall be to wait on you the 22nd, being always, my dear Lady Davy, sincerely yours,

Sydney Smith.