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British Library, Add MS 47890. Not previously published.
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Longman tells me he has 109 copies of Kehama left, which he hopes will soon go,
– & therefore as it is desirable one edition should be ready by the time the other is sold, he wishes the second may go forthwith
to press.ill clumsily divided, &
so ill printed that I never could look at it without displeasure. Slow & sure Tom. There will now be three of my poems in the press
at once.
My Aunt Mary has not written to me again, which I am sorry for,
because her letter made me something rather uneasy about her own state of health, & because I am anxious to know what
she has done with her own littler property. Besides I prest her earnestly to return come to Keswick, promising to fetch her. I have not heard what Mr T Southey died of,
Poor Mr Bunbury died last night. His new house is just
finished – & the garden &c about which he took so much pains for the last three or four years – now in compleat order for
somebody else to enjoy. – I see too by to nights papers that Mr
Smith the Quaker is dead – this I have long expected to hear.
Let me pass to some chearfuller topic. What for Heavens sake has Cunliffe Owen been about?Dreadnought, on which Tom Southey was serving, had
captured a Spanish merchant ship, which was moored in a creek near Ushant. The boats came under heavy fire and six British sailors
were killed, over thirty wounded and two boats drifted onto the shore and their men were imprisoned; see the account in
A homo from Edinburghbulk
<quantity> will eat up the profits of the year. So that I have the pleasure of three months additional labour, xx the
only payment for which will be to find myself 50 or 60£ minus in my division of profits when the accounts come to be made up. 464 pages
are printed. he has 100 more in his hands, & I have still God knows how much to write. To night I shall finish the Austrian war,
except the Tyrolean affairs. they will fill one chapter. the Douro & Galician campaign 1. Talavera 1. subsequent events 1. Gerona
1. Tamames & Ocana 1. Change of ministry & Buonapartes divorce 1.
This obstinacy on the part of the Spanish Regency about placing troops under British officers is a great & provoking evil.
I have seen Jeffrays review,
Pelayoat it at Streatham. indeed as soon as I begin to think seriously of printing it, & to see in
imagination the goodly image of a first proof sheet, – then I shall spur on amain
The men are at work upon our house rough-casting it at last. Your
nephew
has began Robinson Crusoe yesterday.r Crusoe’s
description of the evils Robinson must expect at sea, he looked up to his aunt & exclaimed – ‘poor miserable man!” – So I think the
Moon
has <discovers> no inclination to be a sailor. – Ediths love
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