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MS untraced; text is taken from Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849-1850). Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.) Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849-1850), II, pp. 154-157.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Following the advice of the Traumatic Poet, I have been
endeavouring to get money – and to get it honestly. I wrote to ———,now, the rest on publication.
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And so, how to raise the wind for my long land voyage? Why, I
expect Hamilton’smalesuada fames.
Your West India planprudent. My business will not be an hour in a week, and it will enable
me to afford to be idle – a power which I shall never wish to exert, but which I
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removal to London extends his sphere of utility, and places him in
affluence;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Do not hurry from the baths for the sake of meeting me; for when I set out is unpleasantly uncertain; and as I suppose we must be Lloyd’s guests a few days, it may as well or better be before your return. My mother is very unwell, perhaps more seriously so than I allow myself to fully believe. If Peggy were – what shall I say? – released is a varnishing phrase; and death is desirable, when recovery is impossible. I would bring my mother with me for the sake of total change, if Peggy could be left, but that is impossible; recover she cannot, yet may, and I believe will, suffer on till winter. Almost I pre-feel that my mother’s illness will, at the same time, recall me. . . . . . . . . . . The summer is going off, and I am longing for hot weather, to bathe in your lake; and yet am I tied by the leg. Howbeit, Hamilton’s few days cannot be stretched much longer; and when his account comes I shall draw the money, and away. God bless you!