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Saba Smith

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Saba Smith, Lady Holland, was the daughter of the Revd Sydney Smith, and published a memoir of him.

  • A photo of a Regency-era country clergyman, outside his rectory, shaking hands with a burly farmer.

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    Handshakes

    Sydney Smith tells of handshakes he has known, from those he barely felt to those he can feel to this day.

    Saba Smith

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Elbert Green Hubbard tells us about Richard Cobden’s early life, and how it shaped his values; Sydney Smith gives us his definition of marriage; mild-mannered clergyman George Herbert get his hands (and much else besides) dirty in helping labourer dumped in the road by his overloaded horse; and a Victorian commuter arrives home carrying more than his briefcase.