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Embossed notepaper, 'Palace, Abergwili, Carmarthen'. - Recollections of figures commemorated in Monographs, including 'the excellent renegade who treated us with anecdotes of Napoleon' [Suleiman Pasha?] at one of Houghton's breakfasts; accounts of von Humboldt and Whewell are surprisingly charitable. Landor well represented; 'I met him at Whewell's table. He unfolded his ideas of the most pressingly needed reforms of the Church. "I would give every Bishop £500 a year. The Bishop of London only should have £1000. And I would make it a capital felony for any Bishop to leave his Diocese." Whewell got very hot indeed and we narrowly missed a scene'. Sydney Smith's antipathy to Bishops appeared to be aggravated by seeing Thirwall.

Embossed notepaper, 'Ashdown House, East Grinstead'. - Thanks for monograph on Suleiman Pasha, which contains many familiar details; will send it to Cheriff Pasha [Mohamed Sherif Pasha, son in law of Suleiman Pasha].

34 Hertford [St, W.?]. - Thanks for Monograms [sic]; lines on Mary Berry's death; her own sketch of 'the Berry fire side'; that world could never exist in 'these days of R[ail] Rds, Telegrams... and excitement, without thought & repose - I often pity the young who are always in Motion...'. The only fault in the book is not having [?] of Suleiman Pasha to head it. Her grandson Maurice will be in England about the 20th. Thanks to Annabel for condolences on [her son] Alexander's 'sad suffering Death'.

8 St. James St. - Deep interest in Monographs, but disagrees on several points: Sydney Smith is misrepresented about [Theodore] Hook; they only met twice and after the second occasion Smith remarked to Hayward ;If I had not been told who he was, I should have said he was a quiet, goodnatured, ordinary sort of man. Agrees about Heine but would not have described him as fat; translations excellent; his own writings on Heine. Odd terms of honour applied to Suleiman Pasha: 'But your book is most valuable as a whole. Postscript: living referred to by Sydney Smith should read 'Halberton near Tiverton'.