A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1844
Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 5 October 1844
Combe Florey, Oct. 5th, 1844.
My dear Lady Grey,
I had a smart attack of giddiness on Tuesday, which
alarmed me a good deal. The doctor said it was stomach, and has put me under
the most rigid rules; I will try to follow them.
I think ‘Ireland and its Leaders’ worth
reading, and beg of you to tell me who wrote it, if you happen to know; for
though you call yourself solitary, you live much more in the world than I do,
while in the country.
Have you noticed the abuse of St. Paul’s in the
‘Times’? I was moved
to write, but I kept silence, though it was pain and grief to me. Read
Captain Marryat’s ‘Settlers in Canada.’
Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
Sea-captain and novelist; he published
The Naval Officer, or, Scenes
and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay, 3 vols (1829) and edited the
Metropolitan Magazine (1832-35).
The Times. (1785-). Founded by John Walter, The Times was edited by Thomas Barnes from 1817 to 1841. In the
romantic era it published much less literary material than its rival dailies, the
Morning Chronicle and the
Morning
Post.