79. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, [c. early 1794]
79. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, [c. early 1794] *
I am just jumped out of bed half naked to write a line & half by Edmund Seward. to say that I am well — particularly obliged to Mrs B to whom now time is allowed I will prepare a letter acknowledgement in my next. that I have had an Imposition. astonishd John Davey — frightend the fellows — & translated a sermon. that I attend Dr Pegge without being sick — that Wynn lost his supper last night — Kidd his British herb — Lamb his pipe & all my company. that I am very sleepy.
Do write if but a line & tell me how poor Kate is. I wish much to write to Mrs D but cannot on the uncertainty. I mentioned this in my last to Horace. send him down to enter with Edmund Seward. write soon & believe me your half awakened half dressd half starved half witted but wholly sincere friend
Robert Southey.
I shall have some Botany Bay eclogues [1] for you ere long.
Mr Thorp is well. his sons os coccygis [2] continues growing.
Notes
* Address: Grosvenor Charles Bedford Esqr/ New Palace Yard/
Westminster
Watermark: G R in a circle
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 27. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: Southey’s
presence in Oxford and mention of his work on the ‘Botany Bay Eclogues’ suggests a date in early 1794. BACK
