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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1831
Sydney Smith to Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, [November] 1831
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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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Combe Florey, 1831.
My dear Lady Elizabeth,

I cannot say how much obliged we are by your

* In the Prebendal Stall at St. Paul’s, given to him by Lord Grey.—Ed.

330MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
kindness in sending us what must have cost you so much labour to write, and has given us so much pleasure to read.*

I hope you have no mobs and no cholera; fire upon the first, and go into the warm bath for the other, but do not imagine you will have no cholera in your neighbourhood. I do not altogether see why your coming here should depend on your going to town. Nothing does husband and wife so much good as occasional absences from home, and you could go nowhere where you would be more heartily received.

I hear now and then from Lady Grey, and was delighted to learn from her last that my Lord was quite well again. I wish, for a thousand reasons, but for none more than the consideration of your father’s health, that Reform was carried. There are persons who can govern kingdoms as gaily and with as much sang-froid as they would play at draughts: such is not the case with your excellent father; affairs get into his heart, and circulate with his blood.

Pray remember me very kindly to Mr. Bulteel, and believe me, dear Lady Elizabeth, ever sincerely yours,

Sydney Smith.