She actually had the good fortune, while Miss Minnie Senior, to stop at the Combe florey Rectory, and to discover that the eminent wit took as much trouble to amuse his own family when alone as to set the tables of Mayfair upon a roar.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
At last Lord Lyndhurst, a Tory, gave him a stall at Bristol, and he was able to exchange Foston for Combe-florey, in the more genial latitude of Somerset.
"A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)"
George Saintsbury
On the 14th of July 1829 he wrote from the Sacred Valley of Flowers, as he loved to call it:- I am extremely pleased with Combe florey, and pronounce it to be a very pretty place in a very beautiful country.
"Sydney Smith"
George W. E. Russell
