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British Library, Add MS 47553. ALS; 5p. . Previously published: W. Braekman, ‘Letters by Robert Southey to Sir John Taylor Coleridge’, Studia Germanica Gandensia, 6 (1964), 119–120.
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A neighbour of mine who has one son at Oriel, & intends to place anotherr Arnoldsxxxxxxx tutorage, – is of slow capacity, but
of the best disposition in the world. The elder brothers tutorr Arnold when he was in this country.
Since the commencement of the revolution in Portugal, I have dreaded its consequences in Brazil for John Mays sake.
What a melancholy consideration it is that the Spanish Americans would at this time, from the state of the mother
country, have acquired all that they wanted, without a struggle, – & that the unutterable crimes & miseries of the last twelve
years might have been spared!
I have just reprinted the first volume of my Brazilian history, having I hope materially improved it, at great expence
of labour.fr chiefly from documents which were either
not published, or not accessible to me, when it was first composed.
I have now nearly finished the first volume of the Peninsular War, – which I suppose the booksellers will publish
without waiting for the other two; but this depends upon them, – it is to me a matter of indifference.
I am also about to send to the press the long promised Book of the Church, – which is a sketch of our Church
History.
Your Genevese beauty was much admired here.