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He chose well considering my hatred. He asked me if it 

 was my mother that was with me; I cannot guess whether 

 this was Jessie or Emma. He begged to know what hotel 

 I was at, said he should carry remembrances away with him, 

 and asked me whether I should not also he tried me in all 

 languages, and then said, " You know the language of love." 

 I tell you this that you may know how a Russian makes 

 love. ... W. Clifford makes a good comparison in the way 

 of opposition to G. Newnham [an acquaintance who had 

 not called], overflowing with kindness and affection. He 

 has been all over Paris endeavouring to get us a Shakespeare, 

 and what is remarkable in such a place, in vain. He was 

 too late by one day for a copy. . . . 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Fanny Allen 



(at Geneva). 



ETRURIA, Oct. 30th, 1815. 



I feel the want of your society, dearest Fanny, too much 

 not to be a little sad at sitting down to write to you at 

 such a distance, but I shall mend of that as I go on, and 

 you will be looking out for another letter by this time. 



Sir Samuel Romilly, I hear, reports that you must waltz 

 yourselves into society at Geneva, and that if he had 

 stayed there, he should have been obliged to waltz himself. 

 So I suppose you are all pocketing your prudery as fast as 

 you can. We have received Joe's, giving an account of his 

 having placed my Hal. The place seems promising, but 

 the salary is high, not that I wonder at or blame a man 

 who gets himself well paid for the company of a raw boy. 



I wish I may be the first to tell you of Harriet Drewe's 

 conquest. Last Sunday I had a letter from Caroline 

 [Drewe], the beginning of which was written in very low 

 spirits. She had had a conversation with Mr William 1 in 

 which he seemed to have no intention of continuing to her 



1 Mr William Drewe, brother of Caroline's late husband, the 

 Rev. E. Drewe, was the present owner of the Grange Estate, to which 

 her son Edward ultimately succeeded. The family is now extinct 

 in the male line, and the Grange is sold. 



