3898. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September 1822
Address: To/ G.C. Bedford Esqre/ Exchequer/ Westminster
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 28 SE 28/ 1822
Endorsement: 25 Sept. 1822/ Nothing
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
If you can send me some money it will come very seasonably to supply an exhausted exchequer. I have during the last three months expended more time than my finances can well afford in laying in a stock of health & exercise. It has answered to the extent of my hopes but while I get rid of one ailment
a consumption of the purse is brought on, which is a very unpleasant disease.
Sirius is here & we have had some glorious mountaineering. He departs this day week & leaves me an injunction with me to keep up a system of vigorous exercise during the winter, in all weathers. This I shall endeavor to do tho sorely against the grain. But I have felt the ill consequences of inaction this year too severely & too seriously not to take warning.
The whole of the first volume
being now finished you had better send me the remaining clean sheets & I will have them put in boards so as to be in a legible form.
Mackenzie
dined with me on Saturday & Sunday last – he came over with Wordsworth, & Lord Lowther met him here. I put into his hands the part relating to himself.
Upon Harrys departure I expect to be left wholly to myself for the remainder of the year & to make good use of the time. – We are well – the girls
in the happiness of preparation for a dance on Friday –
God bless you
RS.
