If you want to get a place for a relation, you must not delay it till he is born, but make an application for him in utero, about the fifth or sixth month. The same with any smaller accommodation.
You ask for tickets on Wednesday, to go to St. Paul’s on Thursday, my first promise dating 1836! I would however have done my possible, but your letter did not arrive till Saturday (paulo post). The fact is, I have been wandering about the coast, for Mrs. Sydney’s health; and am taken by the Preventive
MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH. | 409 |
I wish you many long and hot dinners with lords and ladies, wits and poets; and am always truly yours,