1834. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 4 December 1810
1834. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 4 December 1810 *
Keswick. Dec 4. 1810.
My dear Wynn,
Thank you for the sheets of the Catalogue. They have no publishers name to them. May I request you therefore to procure the books which I wish from it, & Grosvenor will settle with you for them, he being my receiver & disbursor general in town. Let them be sent to Longmans for me.
| ✓1619. | Ordenanza de Marina. | 5/. [1] | |
| ✓1629. | Arte de Navigar – | 5/. [2] | |
| ✓1642. | Imperio de la China. | 7/6. [3] | |
| 1655. | Rojas. Discursos Historicos del Cid. | 10/6. [4] | |
| ✓1684. | Esperanza de Israel. | 7/. [5] | |
| ✓1725. | Gentio de Angola. | 5/. [6] | |
| 1849. | Rinaldo di Tasso | 7/6. [7] | |
| 1871. | Aureus Libellus. | 3/6 [8] | |
| 1910. | Malleus Malificarum. | 3/. [9] | |
| ✓ [10] 1922. | Berosus – | 3/6 [11] |
It will be unlucky if I do not get some of these.
I have got into a correspondence with Abella, the Duke of Albuquerques [12] Secretary, who will assist me with all the documents in his possession or within his reach; & I am put in a way also of having specific questions conveyed to Colonel Carol. [13] From him I hope to obtain information respecting Romana’s [14] movements in the North. On the whole from the sources which are opened to me of various kinds, & a little more practise in the business taken into the account as well, I believe the second years volume will be better than the first.
Joan of Arc [15] is about to be reprinted. Busy as I am I have determined to make time for giving it a thorough weeding as it goes thro the press.
God bless you
Yrs RS.
Notes
* Address: To/ C W Williams Wynn Esqr M.P./ Camelford House/
London
Postmark: FREE/ 7 DE 7/1810
MS: National Library of Wales, MS 4812D. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK
[1] Ordenanzas de Marina para los Navios del Rey de las Islas Philipinas, que en Guerra y con Reales Permissos hacen Viages al Reyno de la N. España In Otro Destino del Real Servicio (1757); no. 3603 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK
[2] The cosmographer Rodrigo Çamorano’s (1542–1623) Compendio del Arte de Navigar (1588); no. 3243 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK
[3] Alvaro Semmedo (1585/6–1658), Imperio de la China (1642); no. 3686 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK
[4] Possibly Pedro de Rojas, Conde de Mora (d. 1665), Discursos Illustre, Historicis i Genealogicos (1636); no. 3718 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK
[5] Manasseh ben Israel (1604–1657), Esperance de Israel (n.d.); no. 3177 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK
[6] Francisco Pacconcio (fl. 1640s), Gentio de Angola (1645); no. 3440 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. BACK
[8] Possibly an unknown edition of the surgeon Mariano Santo’s (1488–1577) Aureus Libellus (1522). BACK
[10] Throughout this list ✓ inserted in another hand, presumably to record the books Wynn managed to purchase. BACK
[11] The pseudo-Chaldaeus Berosus, Antiquitatum Italiae ac Totius Orbis Libri Quinque (1545); no. 274 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. This revisionist account of European history purported to be by the Chaldean historian, but was in fact a forgery by Annius of Viterbo (the pseudonym of Giovanni Nanni (1432/1437–1502)). For the impact of Annius’s forgeries on European thought in the early Renaissance and later see Walter Stephens, ‘When Pope Noah Ruled the Etruscans: Annius of Viterbo and his Forged Antiquities’, Modern Language Notes, 119.1 (January 2004), 201–223. BACK
[12] The Spanish military commander, Jose Miguel de la Cueva, 13th Duke of Alburquerque (1774–1811). BACK
