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genius. Mme de Stae'l and Goethe the German were the 

 two others. Extraordinary, that in a classification of this 

 sort by such a judge as Mack, two of the three should 

 have been women. I shall, I think, let Campbell see 

 Anne's play if I find it succeeds with Mackintosh. Fan 

 read it aloud on Sunday evening, and Baugh was as much 

 delighted with it as I am. Dr Holland 1 has not yet 

 recovered from the effects of his Icelandic tour to have 

 been so cold about it. Will men never be just to women ? 

 If they have dabbled themselves in ink the least in the 

 world, the thing is impossible. . . . 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. 



MY DEAR EMMA, PARKFIELDS, Nov. 27 [1813]. 



Nothing can be more delightful than the present 

 course of events, public and private, a post is quite flat now 

 if it does not bring news of a revolution. 2 



Give my kind love to Sarah and thank her for her letter. 

 In the pleasing uncertainty in which her mind was when 

 she wrote to me, I cannot guess whether she will be glad 

 or sorry to hear that we have left the Church-going Clause 

 in our Articles, 3 but so it is, and I make no doubt but she 

 will be resigned either way. Tell her also that we like all 

 her alterations exceedingly and think all she has done 

 judicious, and what is more, Miss Morgan thinks so too. 

 Sarah must feel very happy after all her trouble to be out 

 of the bother of the Club just now. 



We are all come here (dovelies 4 also) to stay till Tuesday. 



1 Dr Holland, mentioned frequently in these letters, was a second 

 cousin of the Wedgwoods and Darwins. His father was Peter 

 Holland, surgeon, of Knutsford (the " Cranford " of Mrs. Gaskell's 

 novel). Dr Holland, afterwards Sir Henry Holland, became a 

 popular London doctor, and was made Physician to Queen Victoria. 

 He married first Emma Caldwell, of the Linley Wood family, and 

 afterwards Saba, daughter of Sydney Smith. 



2 Wellington's army entered France 7 Oct., 1813, and the battle 

 of Leipsic was fought 16th to 18th Oct. 



9 Referring to the " Prudent Man's Friend Society," see p. 65. 

 4 The family name for the two little girls Fanny and Emma 

 Wedgwood. 



