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University of Kentucky Library. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), I, pp. 388–391.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have received since my last the very welcome intelligence from my brother Tom that he & his ship return to England with the May convoy. what time he may be expected
is doubtful, because just at the same time I learnt from a brother of Bedfords,
who is in the Admiralty that the Amelia was coming home with the June convoy.Amelia was a 38-gun Hébé-class frigate of the French navy captured in 1796 and commissioned into the
navy. He was currently serving in the West Indies as part of the British campaign to achieve naval dominance in the Caribbean during
the Napoleonic wars.
Harry graduates the 24th of this month, & leaves
Edinburgh as soon afterwards as possible.fifteen sixteen pounds, – xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx
xxxxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx fellow xxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx. this I have learnt so late that he must now needs wait
some days longer in Scotland than would else be needful, before you can reach him with a remittance. The reason is, that Edith & I & your
god-daughter have been, for the last few days, visiting Lloyd & his
wife, near Ambleside; & tho from hence to Keswick
is only seventeen miles, a letter is rather longer in travelling that distance than it is in getting to London. He knew my intended
movements, & as he did not recollect them when he directed his letter, must abide the inconvenience as a necessary & not unfit
consequence of forgetfulness.
I have been looking long for a letter from you, – perhaps there may be one lingering on the way from Keswick, or I may find one there on my return. Evans
My printer and I travel on together smoothly.in foro conscientæ,re collateral matter to be gleaned from Portugueze books respecting their Indian possessions is little or nothing; –
but of the domestic history very much is only to be got at in that way, & it is desirable to get on as far as possible before I go
over, that I may know as precisely as possible in what the regular and printed documents are deficient, & what specific information
ought to be sought for.plans intrigues of the Anti-Castillian party, during the
Spanish usurpation, & of course, this will be one of the most difficult to fill up. I have collected some facts &
have think I can see my way distinctly.
Last Thursday I dined at the Bishop of Llandaffs,
& was well pleased with him. I liked him the better for having heard that he always protested his exceeding repugnance at the
prosecution of Gilbert Wakefield.
My daughter (Edith May) was so delighted with the new gown which Mrs May sent her, that I thought it expedient to inform her that new gowns were among the pomps & vanities of this wicked world; – a warning which, as you may perhaps suppose, has not made her a whit the less proud of it.
In about three months I hope she will have brother or sister.
No news of Coleridge!