Item 76 - Letter from Sybil Meredith to James Smith

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Richmond Lodge, Richmond Avenue, Milltown, Dublin.—She supposes that Smith is still in Cambridge, but expects that he will have gone [back to Switzerland] by the time she comes to England in October. Her mother has not been well. Is planning to visit Sophie, Oli Doveton, Michael Fordham, and Bullard. The professor [Łukasiewicz] told her yesterday that she was ‘always right’. She and Carew dined together at Jemmets, where Carew recalled a time when he and Smith drank a bottle of Benedictine together after working twenty-five hours on end. Discusses her work in the garden. Hopes Smith is finding lecturing easier, though she expects he wishes he had a small private income. ‘Aubrey says that Bullard must be the richest man in London now.’ For the first time in their lives she and Carew have enough to pay their bills. Asks for his address in Switzerland.