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British Library, Add MS 30927. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 281-282 [in part; verses omitted; dated [August 19 1802]].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Well done true & faithful Editor! I suspect that it is fortunate for the edition
About the commendatory poems. Hayleys & Mrs Robinsons
Walpole
Asaphides. first or second, or both of a rival
Ladies Magazine
Chatterton quotes once from a Rowleyan tragedy called the Atheist. I wish this were in existence – but
probably it
I will commune with Catcott
Haslewood has been uncommonly useful & civil. he shall have full
acknowledged in the preface.
The Note with which you preface Burgums paper need not come to me. as the MS.S. is yours – & whatever
inference may be drawn from it will be by you – xx add your name at the end to give it the proper authority.
Will you send me half a dozen sets of the Anthology down – & one second volume
besides.
God bless you. – in about three weeks Edith expects to be
confined
Thursday morning.
You under-rate history. any body can compile – true – but it is not every body
who can select – who can reduce a number of facts into clear orderly narrative – who can
think – & reason & feel. it is not every body let their application be what it would who can in a life read the
quantity necessary. I know what I can do by what is already done. Annals & History are not quite
synonimes – a years newspapers are the annals.