2372. Robert Southey to Richard Sharp, 28 January 1814
2372. Robert Southey to Richard Sharp, 28 January 1814 *
Keswick, Jany 28th. 1814.
My dear Sir
This morning I received your letter enclosing a ten pound bill, which Mrs. S. will duly employ in making glad the hearts of the poor. Your friend Mrs. Wood [1] will be of her privy council upon this occasion.
We have suffered less than you in the South. Our snows have not been deep, a south thaw of four & twenty hours without either sun or rain have nearly sufficed to make them disappear.
So Ferdinand is at liberty! [2] During the whole war in the peninsula I had a clear opinion concerning the issue which has been amply justified. I am now entirely unable to imagine what course events will take there. Thus far I had the light of history and knowledge to guide me, but all now must be mere conjecture. Mrs. S. and her sisters [3] begged to be remembered.
Believe me my dear Sir
Yours with sincere regard,
Robert Southey.
Notes
* MS: Bristol Reference Library. ALS; 1p.
Unpublished.
Note: identification of addressee
from content; see Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 February 1813, Letter 2382, which notes that Sharp has sent Southey £10
for the relief of the poor in Keswick. BACK
[1] Possibly Mrs Elizabeth Wood (c. 1747–1813) of Underbarrow; or a relative of Humphrey Senhouse, whose mother was Catherine Wood (dates unknown).. BACK
