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Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), I, pp. 237–239 [in part; verses not reproduced]; Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), I, p. 352 [in part; one paragraph].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I was very glad to see your hand writing again. Burnett did not rightly, it appears, understand my leaving Bristol; it was merely to keep a term, that is to eat three indifferent dinners in bad company.
I know not how to say any thing about settling Henry under
Maurice, except by stating to you how I am circumstanced respecting him. it
is not easy to take care of a ready-made family without a ready-made fortune, John May
is no ways connected with me except by friendship, he knew that it would greatly embarrass me to support Henry, & offered to dis xxx discharge his school
bills. his intent was to place him under his own tutor, a brother of
Coleridge; but the school was full, & Henrys age would otherwise have been an objection. John May then requested me to look out any school or situation which I thought proper. Under
these circumstances you will see the impropriety of my placing him at all expensively, & were Maurice to lower his terms to the thermometer of my feelings, that would be burthening me
with another obligation. I cannot educate him myself, I have no time, my family is already quite as large as my means, & the utter
retirement in which we live would be unfavourable for an age when he ought to be forming friendships. I should like him to be with Maurice because he himself wishes it, & because there would be less danger of
his contracting any vices there than in a large & promiscuous school, & this is what is most to be feared. the danger you
mention I fear he would be likely to incur in most situations. what do you think the lowest sum which it would not be improper to
propose to Maurice?
I have been much indisposed & my recovery I am afraid will be slow. my heart is affected, & this at first
alarmed me because I could not understand it. however I am scientifically satisfied that it is only a nervous affection. sedentary
habits have injured my health, x this prescription of exercise prevents me from proceeding with the
works that interest me, & only allows time for the task labour which is neither pleasant to look on to or to remember. my leisure
is quite destroyed. had it not been for this I should ere now have sent you the remainder of my Eclogues, it is now almost too late for
the volume is half-printed.
The Sailors Mother.
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I hope you will not be tired of my Travellers. there are no more – & the first is turned into a Strangerive because plain did not please him.
I recognized you in “Climb climb Aboukirs tower!”
I am curious to see how you & Dr Sayers dressd the Old Woman.too <now> stands “Grew a quaver of
consternation.”