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LINKS

Since the development of the great Gutenberg, Google and other world collections of literature – all photo scans of the original or of early texts - it has become possible to access practically all that Sydney published. However, his accessible texts are widely scattered across the internet. What follows below is a collection of the hyperlinks (the electronic links to those scattered texts) that I have found, but I make no claim to the completeness of the list. 
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I have organised the links into two sections: i. Sydney’s texts, and ii. digitised texts about Sydney, including his daughter Saba’s early memoir, and the recent press reports of the blue plaque celebrating Sydney placed on the house in Heslington in York, which he rented  while building his rectory at Foston.
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Graham Frater, April 2020

sydney's texts

  • Sydney's Works
  • The 1809 sermons, including from the Charlotte Chapel Edinburgh 
  • ​Sermons from St Paul’s and Foundling Hospital, 1846 by the late SS  (the posthumous collection reviewed in the Spectator and the Christian Observer, both of 1846?)
  • Sermons: an early American collection: pub by Carey and Hart, 1846, probably a pirated edition, before international copyright laws, of the 1809 sermons (above).
  • Peter Plymley’s Letters: Gutenberg Project (from Henry Morley’s popular Cassell Library edition)
  • Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
  • University of Pensylvania: Sydney Smith online materials (extensive collection) 
  • BONS MOTS 
  • Wit & Wisdom (Smith and Sheridan)
  • Sydney’s salad recipe in verse
  • Sydney quotes, with sources
  • Sermon on Justice
  • The Edinburgh Review: Sydney’s texts listed
  • The Edinburgh Review – texts including Sydney’s – some attributed and some not, but see the HET website for their listing, and also Sheldon Halpern’s 1966 study of Sydney Smith – given in the bibliography on this site.
  • Fragment On Catholicism

about sydney

  • Saba’s memoir of her father
  • Lord Houghton’s Memoirs (1873)
  • Sydney Smith, et La Renaissance Des Idées Libérales En Angleterre Au Xixe Siècle (1893)
  • Life and Times of the Rev. Sydney smith by Stuart J Reid (1896)
  • G.W.E Russell’s study of Sydney (1904)
  • Short biography: Dr Margaret Bloy’s history website​
  • Sydney and His Gout (Medical essay from ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM, VOL. 5, No. 6. DECEMBER, 1962)
  • Short Biography 
  • The Heslington Plaque Unveiling. York Civic Trust or The British Province of Carmelites 
  • Sydney the source for Jane Austen’s Tilney? By Chris Viveash (Questia) or on the Jane Austen website
  • A recent US perspective on Sydney
  • Christian Observer, 1846 review of posthumous sermons
  • Princeton review 1856
  • Spectator 18 APRIL 1846 (Page 15: review of SS’s posthumous collection of sermons of 1846). Sign up for a free month for full access.

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    • Images
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    • Sydney Smith Bibliography
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    • Links
    • Sydney Smith Chronology
    • Letters >
      • Unpublished Letters
      • Magdalen College Collection
      • New College Collection
      • Stanhope Letters
    • Quotations
  • Contact