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out to the last. . . . Our whole family are now assembled, 

 except Hensleigh, all well; and I often think that if they 

 have all taken the quiet path of life, they have none of them 

 made us ashamed or sorry. Of some of them I might say 

 much more without your dissent. 



Believe me, my dear brother and sister, 



Affectionately yours, 



JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 



William Clifford, of Perristone in Herefordshire, will no 

 doubt be remembered in the letters of 1815, and also of 

 1818, when the Wedgwood family were in Paris. Two 

 orphan nieces now lived with him, and the following letters 

 were written whilst he was on the Continent, where, as he 

 wrote to Mrs Wedgwood, " it is thought proper that I should 

 go to complete my young ladies. I suppose Paris is the 

 place, and once in motion, my inertness is not likely soon 

 to stop. I hate the thoughts of it, and shall contrast it all 

 bitterly with our merry days there. My first look out shall 

 be for Aglae 1 who I dare say after your excellent lecture 

 has turned out incomparable. You talk of growing old, 

 but you will never know anything about the matter for 

 myself, I feel older than anybody ever was before, and the 

 everlasting hills themselves are quite as fit to move.*' 



From William Clifford to Madame Sismondi. 



MY DEAR MADAM, [PAKIS, July, 1833], 



I have just this moment got the most cordial letter 

 ever written, even from the Principality. But it was not 

 very logical, for I do love you very much yet I won't 

 drive straight to your most hospitable house with my 

 tribe, but I will give you every moment of my time at the 

 risk of making poor M. Sismondi ill, to see how I spend my 

 day, but you shall hide it from him as much as you can, 

 or persuade him I am doing something all the while. I 

 know he will do his best to like me for your sake, and I will 



1 Mrs Wedgwood's naughty maid, when they were in Paris in 



ISIS. 



