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MS untraced; text is taken from Robert Galloway Kirkpatrick, ‘The Letters of Robert Southey to Mary Barker From 1800 to 1826’ (unpublished PhD, Harvard, 1967), pp. 92–96. . Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), I, pp. 265–269.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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First – as of most consequence – about the Hussar.Hussar was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1799 and abandoned after striking the Saints Rocks near Brest on 8
February 1804. The crew (including Lieutenant Edward Barker (d. 1810), who was probably a cousin of Mary Barker) made their way to
shore in open boats and became prisoners of war in France.
I do not like your sketch
The more I think of these prints the less am I disposed to tolerate anything that would interfere with the province of
poetry. Therefore I will have no striking part of the poem represented – because the artist must either exceed or weaken the idea. The
vignettes must all be to elucidate. For the first I wish to get a view of Holyheadpaddle instead of rowing, & sit face forward therefore. You may make them very beautiful. The sea may be very nearly as Broad as this paper.
You may give him six or eight such horses to his water coach if you like better. This is a good subject, & as the
figures are the least prominent part will not much puzzle you. The blind man feeling Madocs facedress well. Cadwallon and Madoc on
the beach at evening
Oh what a nobler conquest might be won There upon that wide field!
Not to lose a post I write in haste & hasten to conclude. I am busy as usual as it was in the beginning & will
be, doing more things at once, or at least as many as ever man did before me. Compiling these Specimens
Amadis is an extraordinary book & now the job is done I am glad that I undertook it.
There being no reason for this to be found in the book, you may guess why it was made. So fare you vale Senhora & by the by never spell Senhor again as if you meant to call me an Italian. for Signor is as abominable to me as Monsieur would be. Ediths love – A Dios