A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1839
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, 12 February 1839
Combe Florey, Feb. 12th,
1839.
My dear Mrs. Meynell,
I have written a pamphlet upon the Ballot, and against it,
and I would send it to you, but I know not how; therefore you had better get it
in the ordinary way. It is published at Longman and Co.’s. Pray read it, and tell me what you
think of it. Only think of my being so good a boy as to write conservative
pamphlets! Did you ever think I should come to this? One hole, you see, is made in the Ministry. Will it make such a
leak as to sink the vessel, or will they stop it?
Give my love to your nice little daughter. Has she met yet
with any dandy who has made her serious?
Your affectionate friend,
Sydney Smith.
Charles Grant, baron Glenelg (1778-1866)
Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn, he was a member of the
Speculative Society, MP, Irish chief secretary (1818), and colonial secretary (1835),
created Baron Glenelg in 1835.
Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842)
A leading London publisher whose authors included Southey, Wordsworth, Scott, and
Moore.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
Ballot. (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839). A pamphlet resisting ecclesiastical reform, the second of three.