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some years ago, when we were fighting in his cause against 

 his despisers and haters. I do think I never did read such 

 stuff as the sermon, such an affectation of the most sublime 

 and important meaning and so much no-meaning in reality. 

 I can't see how any human being could possibly learn any- 

 thing either about their duties, or anything else, by the 

 whole sermon. The notes I like much better, but he has 

 the vilest way of writing that ever man had ; he is as insolent 

 as his brother-Lakers, takes the same high ground, no mortal 

 can tell why, except that it pleases them to think that their 

 proper place is on a throne, and he writes more unintelligibly, 

 more bombastically than any of them. . . . 



Considering that I began with nothing to say, I think I 

 have travelled over a good deal of paper, I hope what I have 

 heard is true about the cheapness of postage at Pisa. Tell 

 me what you pay for this great packet of I don't know 

 what. Give my kind love and best wishes to Mrs Drewe 

 and all your party. Farewell, my dear Jessie, ever yours 

 affectionately, S. W. 



The letter just given shews, as might have been foreseen, 

 that Sismondi had fallen in love with Jessie Allen, and had 

 proposed to her, meeting at first with a refusal. The Aliens 

 left Pisa in the spring, after the death of Frank and Louisa 

 Drewe, and went to Frascati. 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. 



ETRUEIA, Aug. 25, 1817. 



... I am very sorry you have lost some of your friends, 

 and very glad you have lost others. We shall now be 

 looking out for your dispatches by the inconceivable Mrs 

 Waddington. I hope you have not been indiscreet in what 

 you have sent by her. What is become of our Jess that she 

 is so idle at her pen ? Great are the lamentations upon that 

 subject. Sarah [Wedgwood] says she has not heard from 

 her since Jan r y ; I have not for the last six months, and Baugh 

 says he has not heard from either of you for the last nine 

 months. 



