1937. Robert Southey to Edith May Southey, 8 July 1811

1937. Robert Southey to Edith May Southey, 8 July 1811 ⁠* 

London, Tuesday, July 8. 1811.

My Dear Shedaw,

If I had time I would write you a long letter, but I am always so busy in London that I can never do half what I wish.

I send two books, one for Dog-Lunus, and the other for Bruin. You are to have a large book, full of stories, and fit for a great girl; so I cannot put yours in a letter; but it will come to Keswick in a great box, with a great many other books which I have bought for myself.

Your mamma is very well, and wants very much to see you, and Herbert, and Bertha, and Katharine. Give them each a kiss for her and for me. Your cousins [1]  are very nice children, and very nice kissing; but I want to kiss Bruin and Puss-kat. You know you are too big to be kissed. God bless you.

Your affectionate father,

Robert Southey.

Notes

* MS: MS untraced; text is taken from John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856)
Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, p. 227. BACK

[1] The sons of Herbert and Catherine Hill: Edward Hill and Herbert Hill Jnr. BACK

Addressee

Southey, Edith May (1804–1871)

People mentioned

Southey, Bertha (1809–1877) (mentioned 3 times)
Southey, Katharine (‘Kate’) (1810–1864) (mentioned 2 times)
Southey, Herbert (1806–1816) (mentioned 2 times)
Hill, Edward (1809–1900) (mentioned 1 time)
Hill, Herbert, Junior, (1810–1892) (mentioned 1 time)
Fricker, Edith (1774–1837) (mentioned 1 time)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four
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