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British Library, Add MS 47890. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 505–507 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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If your eye has glanced upon the other leaf you will discover the cause of this letter so soon after my last. Two
Catalogues have just come to hand, & the readiest way by which I can obtain what I want out of them is thro you, – as the Bristol
Bookseller will get the books from the Bath one. Then they may all come in a parcel come together by waggon, with any thing Martha may have to send. I will pay you when you make your appearance, – or send a
draft for this & the other disbursements, if you will let me know the sum total, & make it worth sending. The Voyage to
Brazil
What an infamous business is this acquittal of the D of York, after evidence more extraordinarily conclusive, perhaps,
than any that ever yet came before a Court of Justice!rather to have been settling his account with Heaven for ol[d] crimes,
rather than adding a new one to the list, – by the xxx living God, old & blind he is, he deserves to be hung in his
Judges robes, & with his wig about his neck.
There is little of mine in this years Annual.Calvinists, – it looks now as if I mean the Americans, instead of the worst blight in the country.the
King & not a certain high personage – for it is my way to speak plain, & in the same page they
have printed Kissareii for Kissarsie, a well-deserved name, which needs no explanation to any who has read
Tristram Shandy.Sharon Turner did The Cid was done by Sharon Turner, & undone by
the Printer who has placed that at the end which ought to have been in the middle.
Coleridges friend will go to Press as soon as the paper arrives from
London – it is to be printed at Penrith & to circulate by the post like a newspaper. I suppose the first number will appear the
first week in April.
Harry is about soon to bring home a wife, if my Uncle has not
misunderstood him, for it is by that channel I have heard so. Sir Domine
is not a very frequent correspondent, & I have so little time to spare, & so many letters which must be written that I never
urge him to write oftener, since if he has found out the value of time a few years sooner than I did it so much the better. I shall go
see him as soon as Edith is safely in bed,xxx it please God that that should be the case, – Durham Cathedral is one of the things in England
which I most wish to see. – when there Newcastle is at so easy a distance that I shall make a visit there for the sake of seeing
James Losh a visit there for the sake of seeing James Losh
Do you ever see a magazine called the Monthly Mirror? – I mention it because in one of the late numbers x a
gentleman therein declares that he xxx
worships me.if <when> any of these come & say their prayers to me.
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