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like him for his own very sincerely, though he was in a 

 cruel hurry to part us all when we were once together again. 

 You know I love the longest letter and read it over and over 

 again. I began two or three to you about Christmas time, 

 wishing you a merry Christmas. Then I thought spring 

 might draw you to Paris. Thank you for all you say of 

 my dear nephew. I can promise he is the better liked, the 

 more he is known, and my nieces too are very well in their 

 way, but I am pretty well worn out and very much tired of it 

 all and it is all very much tired of me. 



Still very faithfully yours, WILLIAM CLIFFORD. 



Now I have had one letter from you, I long for another. 

 Do. 



William Clifford to Madame Sismondi. 



GENOA, October, 1833. 



. , . A letter from my dear Miss Fanny [Allen] got here 

 at last, and she is on the whole reconciled to Mrs Wedg- 

 wood's state as better than she expected particularly in the 

 main point " her memory quite good, the same truth of 

 observation, the same gentleness and kindness of character," 

 and " a cheerfulness that so peculiarly belonged to her about 

 her still. She suffers little or no pain." All this you know 

 already, and is great comfort, but they seem to have little 

 hope of her getting better than she is. It is happy for 

 Mrs Langton that she is married. 



Thank you for all you say of my girls, but you do not 

 know much about them. All fine you say of me is likely 

 to be true, for you have known me off and on 36 years, but 

 there is no reason I should triumph over M. Sismondi. On 

 the contrary, tell him, I am his obliged and faithful servant, 

 W. CLIFFORD. 



In the journal Baroness Bunsen wrote for her mother, 

 Mrs Waddington, there is the following mention of Mr Clifford 

 during his stay in Rome, where he spent the winter 1833-4: 



Dec. 4, 1833. In the evening, if we are at home and 

 not too many visitors, I finish up my sketches. For this I 



