Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, December 29 1812

Tell dear , with my best love /I thank her/ for the honourable fidelity of her attachment to me But that the heart of a Christian is large, and his affections liberal, all his delight is in such as excel in Virtue and in this excellence I bow down before Mr. Whalley. Entre nous he wants nothing but a little of that merry-ness or cheerfulness of which I have spoken, to captivate young people. I have failed in my introduction of some of them to him; as he does not present the exterior of that happiness of which however his heart is full. I never saw the power of generous Christianity more exemplified than in this Saint.

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, August 1814

Dr. Whalley, our two principle neighbours are going to France. How that abominable country is to make the old young, and the sick well, and the fanciful[l] [tear] contented I do not know. Poor [sic] is ordered to spend the Winter at Nice, she is in very bad health, increased I fear by the dejection of her Spirits on 's conduct^*. She writes very piously wishes much that she could have the benefit and consolation of our dear Mr. Whalley's Society there, and she thinks it might patch him up for years. – But the thing is quite out of the question I think.

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, January 16 1815

Are you not pleased with Mr. Whalley's little book? I am delighted, but not with the Title

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 23 April [1816]

My friend Dr. Whalley who is living at Brussels, writes me that he is lodging in the same Hotel with , and sees a great deal of him – He gives a curious account of , who he says used to kick and cuff his Marshalls, and knock down poor Josephine.^*