3583. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16 December 1820
3583. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16 December 1820*
My dear G.
Thinking that you may like to see the inclosed letter, [1] which will sufficiently explain itself, I send it open to you, instead of sealing it for the twopenny post, – to which you will consign it when you have read it at leisure. It is written to a youth, quite uneducated, but of great genius, & half mad with poetry. He tells me he is in a hard, but no ways lucrative employment. [2]
I am going to dine with our new Vicar. [3] Goodenoughs brother-in-law. Pardon So if a letter from you should arrive by this days post you will understand why it is not acknowledged. More hexameters tomorrow [4]
God bless you
RS.
16 Dec. 1820
Notes
* Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqre/ Exchequer
Endorsement: 16. Dec. 1820/ with a lre to
Mr J.A. Heraud/ Coney Street
MS: Bodleian Library, MS
Eng. Lett. d. 47. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK
[2] Heraud worked in the business owned by his father, James Abraham Heraud (d. 1846), as a law stationer, selling papers and forms to lawyers and making copies of legal documents. BACK
[3] James Lynn (1776–1855), Perpetual Curate of Strood 1805–1814, Rector of Caldbeck 1814–1820, Vicar of Crosthwaite, Keswick, 1820–1855; he had married Charlotte Alicia Goodenough (1782–1822) in 1805. Her father, Samuel Goodenough (1743–1827; DNB), was Bishop of Carlisle 1808–1827, which may well explain Lynn’s appointment to Crosthwaite. BACK