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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1836
Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 22 December 1836
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Combe Florey, Dec. 22nd, 1836.
Dear Sir George,

I stayed a day or two at Lord Ashburton’s in my way down. To be in a Tory house is like being in another planet. I don’t believe a word about the Whigs going out; why should they?

Give my love to Julia. The weather is beautiful; but, as Noodle says (with his eyes beaming with de-
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light), “We shall suffer for this, Sir, by-and-by.” We are going on with our war against the Bishops, and I shall write a pamphlet upon it, which neither you nor George will read, but Julia will, I think; I should like to reason the matter with her.

I have read ‘Astoria’ with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written—very well written—account of savage life, on a most extensive scale. Ellice, who has just come from America, says Mr. Astor is worth £5,000,000 sterling; but Baring does not believe it, or is jealous perhaps.

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I have had no gout, nor any symptom of it: by eating little, and drinking only water, I keep body and mind in a serene state, and spare the great toe. Looking back at my past life, I find that all my miseries of body and mind have proceeded from indigestion. Young people in early life should be thoroughly taught the moral, intellectual, and physical evils of indigestion. Love to all. God bless you!

Sydney Smith.