12 o A Century of Family Letters [CHAP, ix 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her husband. 



SATURDAY, June 6, 1818. 



I must answer your letter this moment, my dear Jos, 

 while the impression of its kindness is warm in my heart. 

 You cannot guess half the pleasure it gave me, valuing 

 your approbation and your affection more than anything 

 in this world. I am very glad one cause of my uneasiness 

 is removed in the generous resolution you have taken, and 

 another still more important in the improving state of 

 Jenny's health. Poor Caroline's 1 hard fate still presses 

 heavily on my heart. . . . 



We are all much pleased at the improving prospect of 

 our Swiss tour, though we had made up our minds to come 

 home with a very good grace if it could not have been 

 accomplished. 



Mr Clifford is really gone. He went with Mr Clive 2 

 early yesterday morning. He spent the day preceding 

 with us, and he seemed quite low at parting. He gave 

 us all three a very pretty fan apiece as a parting gage 

 d'amitie, but Charlotte is decidedly his favourite, and with 

 any other person in the world I should say it was love, 

 but he persists in saying he shall never see any of us again. 

 Mr Sismondi and Mr Gallois were very agreeable and 

 suitable to each other the day they dined here. They 

 were amusing themselves a little with Madame Recamier's 

 establishment at Val de Grace, the place we visited her at, 

 though they did not speak of it as if it was at all against 

 her reputation. They said that she and M. Montmorenci 

 had hired the house of M. de Chateaubriand, as a joint 

 concern, but it was so small that there was no room either 

 for Madame de Montmorenci, or M. de Recamier, and that 

 she had consulted her friends and they had told her there 

 was nothing odd in the scheme. They like the place so 

 much that they talk of purchasing it between them. 



1 Mrs Drewe, who was still in Italy with her daughters Marianne 

 and Georgina. Her daughter Charlotte was fatally ill in England. 



2 Edwin Bolton Clive of Whit-field, sometime M.P. for Hereford. 



