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with him it is a want that he is wretched without; he goes 

 into it, is looked cold on, or fancies he is looked cold on, 

 and returns home in a miserable state of dejection, but still 

 goes if he has an invitation next day. 



Sismondi tries to persuade us we are very much neg- 

 lected here, I cannot for my life think it. We were at two 

 balls last week, and have two or three invitations before us 

 this week; they are more than I am disposed to accept, 

 and quite enough to prevent the suspicion of neglect; 

 considering we give nothing in return, I think great favour 

 is shewn us. The gayest thing we have before us is the 

 Prince of Mecklenburg's ball, which is to take place on 

 Tuesday, the 28th; eight hundred people are asked, to 

 whom he is to give a supper, and his father requests him 

 to spare no expense in the business. Young Monod is one 

 of his teachers and to him I fancy we owe our invitation. 



Notwithstanding all you have heard of the charming 

 people here, there is not one who will make me regret 

 Geneva so much as our Hal. 1 He is almost as kind and 

 affectionate to us as you could be yourself, and we shall 

 miss his beaming face and gay spirits appearing among us 

 every vacant moment. I wish you could see him when he 

 mounts the stairs to inform us of an invitation to a ball. I 

 have not room to tell you now how much the agreeable 

 parts of his character are improved, he is so sociable and 

 so gay that he's sure of being a favourite through life. . . . 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. 



ETRUKIA, Jan. 21st [1816]. 



I have not yet thanked you individually, dearest Emma, 

 for the interesting letter I got from you whilst I was at 

 Cheltenham. It was very well it came there, for we wanted 

 amusement cruelly there, and did not find it so easy to get 

 into society there as you have done at Geneva. Not but 

 we were very comfortable among ourselves, but that we 

 could have been at home. I think I told you that we met 



1 Harry Wedgwood, their nephew. 



