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Beinecke Library, Osborn MSS File ‘S’, Folder 14144. ALS; 2p. . Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), V, pp. 102–103 [in part].
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It is not often, that I allow myself to wish the accidents of fortune
had been more in my favour & that I were in possession of that property, which in
the just & ordinary course of things ought to have devolved upon me.
By this post I write to Bedford
desiring that he will transfer to you 625£ in the three percents.
One word more. I intreat you, break away from business if it be possible as early in the spring as you can, & put yourself in the mail for this place. Tho you cannot leave your anxieties behind you, yet you may by means of change of air & scene, be assisted in bearing them, & lay in here a store of pleasant recollections, which in all moods of mind are wholesome.
Bedford is generally to be found at the Exchequer from eleven till three or four. But you may arrange your movements with him by note, either directed there, or to his house, 9 Stafford Row, Buckingham Gate.
I cannot write to you about indifferent things, troubled as you needs
must be, & sympathizing as I must do with you. Yet I trust that you x
now know the extent of the evil, – & that when this storm is weathered there may
be prosperity & comfort in store for one who so eminently deserves them.