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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1839
Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 28 December 1839
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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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December 28th, 1839.

I will dine with you on Saturday, my dear Lady Holland, with the greatest pleasure.

I have written against —— one of the cleverest pamphlets I ever read, which I think would cover —— and him with ridicule. At least it made me laugh very much in reading it; and there I stood, with the printer’s devil, and the real devil close to me; and then I said, “After all, this is very funny, and very well written, but it will give great pain to people who have been very kind and good to me through life; and what can I do to show my sense of that kindness, if it is not by flinging this pamphlet into the fire?” So I flung it in, and there was an end! My sense of ill-usage remains of course the same. The dialogue between —— —— and —— —— is, or I should rather say, was, most admirable.

Sydney Smith.