A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1836
Sydney Smith to Charlotte Murchison, [1836]
I am not formally, but really
obliged to you for this
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sketch of Grattan. It is so well expressed, that I
suspect it to be your own.
Mrs. Sydney is very unwell; and I am at
St. Paul’s, going and coming, all the morning. As soon as I am free, and
she is well, we will leave our cards at your door, if you will not let us in. I
say cards, but I shall leave a specimen,—strontian, or
greywacke, or something indicative of my respect for Geology and you. Very
truly yours,
Henry Grattan (1746-1820)
Irish statesman and patriot; as MP for Dublin he supported Catholic emancipation and
opposed the Union.
Catharine Amelia Smith [née Pybus] (1768-1852)
The daughter of John Pybus, English ambassador to Ceylon; in 1800 she married Sydney
Smith, wit and writer for the
Edinburgh Review.