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British Library, Add MS 47888. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 358–359.Dating note: ‘? 9 May 1804’ added in pencil. Dating of ‘Kendal Wednesday’ is the same as Southey’s letter to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, [9 May 1804], Letter 938, which has a postmark of 12 May 1804 (Saturday).
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Thus far well – & and dry tho’ it rained during the last hour of my walk a little – & is now set in for a wet afternoon. The coach arrives about four, & will allow me to stay four & twenty hours at Liverpool – very conveniently – so that I shall be there for five one evening till five the next. I have learnt nothing as yet of its farther motions.
Mrs Wordsworth looked as sadly lean as if she was my twin sister. Johnny is one of the sons of the Anakim
Wordsworth tells me what I am sorely sorry to hear that John Tobin is gone to Falmouth, hopelessly far gone in consumption. Poor blind James ! What will become of him when he has lost his home-companion. It will be a second calamity as severe as his loss of sight.
Make my excuses to Mr. Johnson
I am cansaded – & shall not get a decent descanceshameful. – tell me in your letter whether Mr Johnson has got the Historia Naturalis Brasiliæof xxx any sale xxx xxxxx xxxxx they told me a world of people were gone to the sale, I fared there very well & very
reasonably.
this is a very bad & very suje
So God bless you, take care of yourself, eat and drink! And make Nurse sit down, and drink – a for she does not do
either the one or the other as she ought – and keep the Edithling quiet and in
the dark. Let nobody talk to her or attempt to make her spracken up