3839. Robert Southey to Edith May Southey, 17 May 1822
Address: To/ Miss Southey/ Hattersleys Hotel/ Harrogate
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
MS: British Library, Add MS 47888. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
I purpose setting off for Kendal on Wednesday next, & taking the stage to Skipton next day. With regard to your meeting me, you must bear in mind that there is no certainty of my finding room in the coach on either day. On the supposition however that you will go to Bolton
on the Thursday, I must ask whether you can take me from thence, or not, that I may know how to engage the chaise from Skipton. If I do not meet you, I shall of course stop to see the place, that we may shape our return either by Wensley Dale, or any other course that Miss Hutchinson may think best.
I shall bring with me my summer cold, which is in great perfection. It is very likely that I may leave it at Harrogate, or lose it on the way.
Our weather here is delicious. I was in the river this morning, enjoying myself like a river-God. The Laburnum is just coming into full blossom & its beauty will be over before you see it, – which I am sorry for, for it will be a beautiful sight
Your mother & Mrs C. are gone to Barrow,
& as I have had other letters to write, I have only time to scrawl this much, before I set forth to meet them on their way back.
God bless you
RS.
