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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 23. Not previously published.
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Norris of Bemerton is the man I mean.whose the time of whose death was not known, were to be inserted according to the date of their publications?
to class them at the end as you seem to talk of would be absurd. It will be very easy to insert Norris & any others who may have
been omitted, in their right place, by only paging such insertions with an * to mark the duplication. As for the Anonymous we had
better altogether omit them – there are none of any xxx notoriety before the political or personal satires of the present
reign, therefore better left alone.
Better say nothing of Pope – if you do not like George the Seconds
I have shot my bolt in the Courier – most likely to no purpose. once in a paragraph immediately following the large
letter once in large letter by itself. Amelia, of which Tom Southey was a lieutenant, had captured the Spanish brig Isabella and the ship Conception, both laden with wine and brandy, and the ship Commerce, laden with cotton. It
was customary for naval officers to be allotted a share of the value of ships and cargo captured in armed conflict, but the prize
money was contested because the ships were captured before war was officially declared. Southey took up his brother’s cause to have
his share reinstated in
John S’s property has not been over-rated to you, but you must not touch upon the
godly string. he is a strong-headed long-headed man, whose perversities might easily be explained & whose character – imperfectly
as I know his person – I so well understand that if ever I wrote my own history it would form an interesting specimen of moral anatomy.
The only way to influence him is to represent me as standing high in the general opinion, – as a man already honourably distinguished –
& likely to be more so. Nothing therefore of religion or of politics – but something about the name as one to
be ranked high & remembered. This is the only stratagem or means of any kind I ever took to get at him, & it is not a bad
one.
Do not curtail the specimens of Aaron Hill
With respect to Biggs, I cannot but suspect that his men
correct xxx after you very x carelessly. Let him send you two proofs of each sheet, – keep one as a check upon
them. they will in that case be sure to correct all the blunders which you have xxxx marked.
You love the Society for the Suppression of Vice. amuse yourself therefore by seeing how I have clapper-clawed them in
the last Annual.
Wednesday. Thursday.t 5. 1805