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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1820
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, [January] 1820
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York, 1820.
Dear Mrs. Meynell,

We have all been ill,—that is, all but I;—a sort of fever; and they have all been cured by me, for I am deeper in medicine than ever.

Douglas is gone to school; not with a light heart, for the first year of Westminster in college is severe:—an intense system of tyranny, of which the English are very fond, and think it fits a boy for the world; but the world, bad as it is, has nothing half so bad.

I strongly recommend you to read Captain Golownin’s narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertaining books I have read for a long time. You must also read —— ——. I would let you off if I could, but my sense of duty will not permit me to do so; for it is, and has long been, my province, to fit you up for London conversation; Mrs. Crape (your maid) dresses you—your other half falls to me.

I hope your children are all well; if they are not, I am sure you are not; and if you are not, I shall not be so. So God bless you, my dear Gee! and remember me kindly to your husband.

Ever affectionately yours,
Sydney Smith.