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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. ND, 1898 (WorldCat). Excellent and entertaining selection of essays collected from the pages of 'Literature' magazine. Stock lightly toned but otherwise in VG order throughout. Green cloth boards with bevelled edges and gilt titling to front and spine. This faded, boards only lightly marked and thus a nice copy of a scarce book. 8vo. 158pp.…

[Sydney Smith, 'The Smith of Smiths', wit and author.] Four Autograph Letters Signed to 'Mrs Cunliffe' [Elizabeth Emma Cunliffe Offley, daughter of Lord Crewe], good natured and vivacious.

Sydney Smith (1771-1845), 'The Smith of Smiths', wit, author and cleric [Elizabeth Emma Cunliffe Offley (1780-1850), daughter of Lord Crewe and wife of MP Foster Cunliffe Offley]

Verlag: Three letters from London addresses: 3 Weymouth Street Portland Place no date c. ; 33 Charles Street Berkeley Square 31 April 1839; 56 Green Street Grosvenor Square 18 February 1842. Last letter with no place or date London c. 1824, 1835

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The four items in good condition, lightly aged, with stubs from mounts still adhering. The first three are bifoliums, carrying seals in red wax (that to the third letter broken). The second letter is addressed to her at Grosvenor Square; the third and fourth to her at Upper Brook Street. ONE: No place or date. [London, on paper with watermark of 'J GREEN & SON | 1824'.] 1p, 12mo. 'I am always sorry to quit London dear Mrs Cunliffe never more so than when by doing so I lose the opportunity of enjoying your Society this is in Rogers Style except that it is true' (the reference is to the poet Samuel Rogers). In a postscript he gives details of his forthcoming trip to Yorkshire, and asks, 'how is Lord Tavistock?' TWO: '3 Weymouth St'. No date (Smith was at this address around 1835). 1p, 12mo. He answered her letter of the previous day 'expressing my entire resolution to dine with you on the 28th. a resolution with the Wisdom of which the more I reflect upon it the more I am satisfied'. THREE: '33. Charles St Berkeley Sqre | April 31. 1839'. 1p, 12mo. 'I had been practicing [sic] Steps all the morning but was prevented by the lateness of London dinners from appearing at an hour which would have been decorous in a man of any Gravity'. FOUR: '56 Green St | Grosvenor Sqre | Feby 18 1842'. 1p, 4to. 'My dear Mrs Cunliffe | Pray select a better Messenger than Mrs Sydney she did not tell me of your party yesterday till I had gone to Bed - & added this morning that there was another Enemy but she could not tell which it was so that you see I am not ouly guiltless but ill used'.…

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[Sydney Smith, 'The Smith of Smiths', wit and author.] Four Autograph Letters Signed to 'Mrs Cunliffe' [Elizabeth Emma Cunliffe Offley, daughter of Lord Crewe], good natured and vivacious.