2292. Robert Southey to Henry Herbert Southey, 21 August 1813

2292. Robert Southey to Henry Herbert Southey, 21 August 1813 ⁠* 

Saturday – Aug 21. 1813.

My dear Harry

I am weary of waiting, & therefore in xxx expectation that the lump on my eye lid will disperse in the meantime, I have taken my place in Thursdays mail, the coach from here to Penrith serving on Wednesday. So, Deo volente, [1]  I shall breakfast with your Lordship on this day week. Will you Let my Uncle know this by twopenny post, & you will save him ten pence, at the cost of only the paper to yourself.

I am “at the receipt of custom” [2]  – this being the full Laking season. This evening, Professor Monk [3]  came here with some travelling companion.

RS.

Notes

* Address: To/ Dr Southey,/ 28. Queen Anne Street, West,/ London
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 24 AU 24/ 1813
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Don. d. 3. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK

[1] i.e. ‘God willing’. BACK

[2] Matthew 9: 9. BACK

[3] James Henry Monk (1784–1856; DNB), who had been elected Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge in 1809. His travelling companion is unidentified. BACK

Addressee

Southey, Henry Herbert (1784–1865)

People mentioned

Hill, Herbert (c. 1749–1828) (mentioned 1 time)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four
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