1830-1831] A Visit to Cresselly 239 



After this the Edward Drewes appear no more in these 

 pages, although there are casual allusions in various letters 

 to their prosperous and happy life, and one in especial 

 speaks of their paying a visit to the Pembrokeshire relations, 

 travelling there with four horses in great style. 



The girls were brought home from London by their 

 father, and Bessy wrote that " they have had their fill of 

 amusements and going about, and to crown all are very 

 glad to come home.' : 



Madame Sismondi to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. 



CHNE, Oct. 20 [1831]. 



. . . Sis now looks forward to the visit [to Cresselly] with 

 pleasure, I with delight. My poor little Sad perhaps yet 

 does not know of it, for yesterday whon I almost expected 

 to see her, her six weeks being terminated, came a letter 

 with the postmark Conegliano. Judge if I was not in a 

 passion; Miss Smith, 1 my evil genius, had lost her pass- 

 port delayed to send back to Venice for a new one then 

 she is oftener ill than well, sets off at 11 in the morning 

 instead of 8, as she promises over night, or 6, as any reason- 

 able voiturier traveller would do. I feel as I do sometimes 

 in my sleep when I cannot put my cloaths on. ... We must 

 travel voiturier, which among many conveniences and 

 suitablenesses has its plagues for an impatient spirit. We 

 shall be at Paris about the 13th, stay three or four days 

 there . . . [reaching] Cresselly, my beloved Cresselly, about 

 1st Dec. This is giving as short delays as we can with such 

 slow going. We pass all Dec. there, and then, alas, begins 

 our long journey back. ^Will you not, beloved Bessy, with 

 Elizabeth and Charlotte return with us to Paris ? We will 

 cherish you as the apple of our eye, take such care of you, 

 go as slow as you please in vetturino, which is no fatigue. 

 I live in hopes all this may be done, and I am as happy as 

 a princess, and think no more about the cholera, or tumults, 

 or war, of which two last, to say the truth, I had never 



1 Miss Patty Smith, eldest daughter of William Smith, M.P. for 

 Norwich, who was travelling with Harriet Surtces. 



