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British Library, Add MS 30928. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I heard of Mr T Southeys death from my Aunt two or three days ago.further <heavier> censure than this. But towards
my Aunt his conduct has been cruel & unnatural to a degree which nothing
but insanity can account for – unfortunately it is not that sort of insanity of which the law takes cognizance.
So Charles if xxxx <Lawyer> Nicholasxxxxx should have commenced any proceedings against this poor soul in the Courts below on my account I enter a Noli
prosequixxxxxx. He has done, I suspect, neither good nor evil in this world, & as for this, it is but an error of judgement,
& Courts Martial allow that as an excuse, it ought surely to be a much fairer plea in case of <against> sentence
of damnation.
I am sorry that our movements suit so ill with each other – & yet I cannot disarrange mine without more
inconvenience than ought to be incurred. We shall start the last week in May or the first in June, be about a week on the road, – a
month at Streatham & in London, – then to Bath to stay three days with Miss Barker, who is there with Sir
Edward Littleton. Then to Bristol that Edith may see George & her sisters.r. J.
It is the unmerciful extent of the Register
No letter from Mr Smith. I fear he is almost past letter
writing.
I have been applied to to translate Lucien Buonaparte’s poem!
God bless you. We are going on well, & I am far more delighted with the campaign in Portugal than I should have been
had Mr T. S. left me the whole of his fortune.