[Richard Sharp?] 4 March 1831

TO [RICHARD SHARP?], 4 MARCH 1831

MS: Mrs Michael Millgate.

Gray's Inn March 4. 1831

My dear Sir,

I thank you most heartily for your kind congratulations. I certainly succeeded beyond what I had expected; and I must say, without any mock-modesty, that I am still amazed at the favour with which my speech was received.

I have been solicited by several of our friends to print it. I have not absolutely made up my mind. But I think that I shall do so.

I hope that we shall meet soon. If I should not see you at dinner on Saturday at Sir G Philips's, or on Sunday at Mr. Boddington's, I will call on you.

Ever yours truly

T B Macaulay

TO LADY HOLLAND, [c. 15 SEPTEMBER 1831]

MS: British Museum. Address: The / Lady Holland. Extract published: Sonia Keppel, The Sovereign Lady, 1974, p. 294.

Dear Lady Holland,

I had not time, in our short conversation, to explain fully my opinions respecting the present crisis; nor have I now time to explain them fully in writing. I will tell you in a few lines what I know and what I think.

The question is this – If the Reform Bill is lost, ought the Ministers to resign? I have conversed on this subject with people of different ranks and of different shades of opinion; and I have heard only one answer.