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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1823
Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 1 October 1823
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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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October 1st, 1823.
Dear Lady Holland,

I was prepared to set off for London, when a better account arrived from Dr. Bond. I think you mistake Bond’s character in supposing he could be influenced by partridges. He is a man of very independent mind, with whom pheasants at least, or perhaps turkeys, are necessary.

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Nothing can be more disgusting than an Oratorio. How absurd, to see five hundred people fiddling like madmen about the Israelites in the Red Sea! Lord Morpeth pretends to say he was pleased, but I see a great change in him since the music-meeting. Pray tell Luttrell he did wrong not to come to the music. It tired me to death; it would have pleased him. He
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is a melodious person, and much given to sacred music. In his fits of absence I have heard him hum the Hundredth Psalm! (Old Version).

Ever yours, dear Lady,
Sydney Smith.