3827. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20 April 1822
Address: To/ G.C. Bedford Esqre/ Exchequer
Endorsements: 20 April 1823; 20 April 1823
MS: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Eng. lett. c. 26. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: The endorsements incorrectly date this to ‘1823’. Southey’s authorial dating and the letter’s content indicate it was written on 20 April 1822.
The sooner you can let me have 50 £ the better; when the next quarter is received, this will <leave> enough in your hands for the frames, & the taylors bill. – I shall not want clothes this year, which is well, because Hydes
successor chuses to dandify me, & I must therefore look for a taylor who will not make his mistake.
I used to get my vegetable-marrow seed from Ludlow. But I have lost my poor friend Mr Browne, who supplied me with it. It is an excellent thing, – & ought to be in the ground by this time. We stew them in cream, in a way which you will like.
Edith-May goes, I believe, next week to Harrogate. I have great hope that it will be of great service to her. You will be pleased to see with what freedom & spirit she sketches & how excellently well she uses her hands in any thing where design is required.
Your godson is a little out of order at present. I assure you, you will not be for taking him to kxll xrxt when you see him. – I have many things to show you, much to talk about, & many pleasant schemes dependent xxx upon your presence. The boat is under the painters hands
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Remember me to Henry & Miss Page –
God bless you
RS
20 Apr 1822.
