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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1835
Sydney Smith to George Philips, 23 November 1835
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November 23rd, 1835.
My dear Philips,

I have bought a house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square (lease for fourteen years), for £1400, and £10 per annum ground-rent. It is near the chapel, in John-street, where I used to preach. I was tired of looking out for ready-furnished houses. We are five minutes from the Park, five minutes from you, and ten minutes from Dr. Holland.

All the Ministers are in town, and I meet them almost every day somewhere or another; but hear nothing of importance, and have no wish to hear anything. They are going on with the reformation of the Church; and the Ministers think that the members of the Commission put in by Peel are quite in earnest, and willing to do the thing fairly.

In calling this morning, I met Lady Davy, Mrs. Marcet, and Mrs. Somerville in the same room. I
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told them I was the Shepherd Paris, and that I was to give an apple to the wisest. I congratulated Whishaw on coming out of W—— House unmarried. He says he does not know that he is unmarried, but rather thinks he is. Time will show if any one claims him.

I ought to have the gout, having been in the free use of French wines; and as Nature is never slow in paying these sort of debts, I suppose I shall have it.

Sydney Smith.