Charles Edwards (1797–1868): A Cambridge solicitor who later emigrated to New York. He was the author of Hofer, and Other Poems (1820), which quoted from Southey’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (1797) (p. 74). In December 1819, Edwards approached Southey and asked for a favour (possibly a contribution to Hofer), which Southey declined to perform. Hofer was published by Longmans, who also published Southey’s work, and the subject might have appealed to Southey, who was an admirer of the Tyrolese patriot, Andreas Hofer (1767–1810).