3827. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20 April 1822

Address: To/ G.C. Bedford Esq^re/ Exchequer
Endorsements: 20 April 1823; 20 April 1823
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: The endorsements incorrectly date this to ‘1823’. Southey’s authorial dating and the letter’s content indicate it was written on 20 April 1822.

My dear G.

The sooner you can let me have 50 £ the better; when the next quarter is received, this will <leave> enough in your hands for the frames, & the taylors bill. – I shall not want clothes this year, which is well, because Hydes

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successor chuses to dandify me, & I must therefore look for a taylor who will not make his mistake.

I used to get my vegetable-marrow seed from Ludlow. But I have lost my poor friend Mr Browne, who supplied me with it. It is an excellent thing, – & ought to be in the ground by this time. We stew them in cream, in a way which you will like.

Edith-May goes, I believe, next week to Harrogate. I have great hope that it will be of great service to her. You will be pleased to see with what freedom & spirit she sketches & how excellently well she uses her hands in any thing where design is required.

Your godson is a little out of order at present. I assure you, you will not be for taking him to kill-brat when you see him. – I have many things to show you, much to talk about, & many pleasant schemes dependent xxx upon your presence. The boat is under the painters hands

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Remember me to Henry & Miss Page –

God bless you
RS

20 Apr 1822.

Notes

1. Hyde (d. 1820) had been Southey’s tailor in London. His successor was J. McCallan & Co., tailors of Leicester Square, London.[back]

2. The Southeys’ boat the Royal Noah, which they used on Derwentwater.[back]

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