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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 3p. . Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), III, pp. 232–234.
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You have by this time learnt how readily I acquiesced in the decision
which you & Herries
passdx
armour which his father had worn in Wambas wars.
The MS. of the Vision was sent me with the proofs. You mentioned an
intention of preserving it, & therefore I have not thrown the dirty &
befingered px leaves into the fire, as otherwise I should have done.r Wilsonsrestored the lines which had
been xxxxxx struck out pendente lite.look as well as blank verse. I am looking daily for the notes & the
Preface, with the intent of referring in the former to Westalls views, for the line of
mountains, & the evening effect described in the opening of the poem.
The Almanacks are not arrived. I have long been expecting a parcel from Longmans, & begin to marvel at its delay.
Concerning poor dear Nash’s effects I know as little as you do. Nothing has been said to me
about the drawings which his family must know to be mine, & therefore I must
write about them. He told me once that he either had left, or intended to leave me,
two splendid drawings by Westall of the Carli Cave in India: