A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1841
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, 25 January 1841
Combe Florey, Jan. 25th,
1841.
My dear Mrs. Meynell,
Pray say all that is kind on my part to Miss Poulter, and express how much flattered I
am by her present. I
have no imagination myself, but am deeply in admiration of those who have; pray
beg that we may meet as old friends, and embrace wherever we meet. I shall be
in town the 17th of February. The Hibberts have suddenly left us, and we are in a state of
collapse. We are all pretty well, my asthma excepted. Ever, dear G., affectionately yours,
Emily Hibbert [née Smith] (1807-1874)
The younger daughter of Sydney Smith; in 1828 she married Nathaniel Hibbert
(1794-1865).
Georgina Meynell Ingram [née Pigou] (1789-1868)
The daughter of Frederick John Pigou (1767-1830) and his wife Louise, friends of Samuel
Rogers; in 1819 she married Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram.
Louisa Frances Poulter (1792-1861 fl.)
The daughter of Edmund Poulter; she published a volume of poems in 1841 and was living
unmarried in Marylebone at the time of the 1861 census.