A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1843
Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 28 December 1843
Combe Florey, Dec. 28th,
1843.
My dear Philips,
I am going to Bowood for five or six days next week. I
shall find Bobus there, who will come on
from thence here. He is very blind, but bears up against the evils of age
heroically. The great question of the next Session will be the support of the
Catholic clergy. Will Peel dare to bring
it on? Will he be able to carry it in and out of the House, if he does?
Longman has printed my American Letters in the shape of a small
pamphlet, and it has a very great circulation. I receive presents of cheese and
apples from Americans who are advocates for paying debts, and very abusive
letters in print and in manuscript
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from those who are
not. I continue to think the Pennsylvanians will not pay; and so thinks, as I
hear, Jones Lloyd.
Your old and affectionate friend,
Sydney Smith.
Samuel Jones Loyd, baron Overstone (1796-1883)
London banker; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was MP for Hythe (1819-26); in
1850 he was created Baron Overstone in the British peerage.
Robert Percy Smith [Bobus Smith] (1770-1845)
The elder brother of Sydney Smith; John Hookham Frere, George Canning, and Henry Fox he
wrote for the
Microcosm at Eton; he was afterwards a judge in India
and MP.