A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1839
Sydney Smith to Charles Dickens, 11 June 1839
Charles-street, Berkeley-square, June 11th, 1839.
My dear Sir,
Nobody more, and more justly, talked of than yourself.
The Miss Berrys, now
at Richmond, live only to become acquainted with you, and have commissioned me
to request you to dine with them Friday, the 29th, or Monday, July 1st, to meet
a Canon of St. Paul’s, the Rector of Combe Florey, and the Vicar of
Halberton,—all equally well known to you; to say nothing of other and better
people. The Miss Berrys and Lady
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Charlotte Lindsay have not the smallest
objection to be put into a Number, but, on the contrary, would be proud of the
distinction; and Lady Charlotte, in particular, you may
marry to Newman Noggs. Pray come; it is as
much as my place is worth to send them a refusal.
Mary Berry (1763-1852)
Of Twickenham, the elder sister of her companion Agnes Berry (1764-1852); she was a
diarist and one of Horace Walpole's primary correspondents.
Lady Charlotte Lindsay [née North] (1771 c.-1849)
The daughter of Frederick North, second Earl of Guilford; in 1800 she married Lt.-Col.
John Lindsay (d. 1826), son of James Lindsay, fifth Earl of Balcarres. She was Lady in
Waiting to Queen Caroline.