4123. Robert Southey to [Thomas Clarkson], 19 January 1824

 

MS: Cornell University Library. ALS; 1p.
Unpublished.

Jany. 19. Monday. 1824.
My dear Sir

If it be convenient for you to receive my daughter & myself on Saturday Jany. 31. I will secure places for that day in the Ipswich Coach from Norwich, & remain with you till the Tuesday morning, then to proceed to Cambridge. My movements, tho less important in their object, are not less methodical than your own. My engagements are made along a whole circuit, & on the morning of the 15th Feby. I hope to reach home, after an absence of 15 weeks.

Should you reply to this on Wednesday or Thursday please to direct No 15. Q Anne Street. Cavendish Square. Afterwards to the Revd. Neville White’s, Norwich, for which place we set out on Friday.

I write this in Hampshire, on my return from a Western Circuit. Edith was left in town: she would otherwise have joined with me in kind remembrances to Mrs Clarkson. – I will put in my portmanteau the journal containing my <the> remarks at New Lanark.

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Southey had visited New Lanark on 28 September 1819 and commented on his visit in his journal. This was later published as Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819, ed. Charles Harold Herford (London, 1929), pp. 258–266. The mill and surrounding community were owned and managed by Robert Owen (1771–1858; DNB), 1799–1825.

God bless you –
yrs most truly
Robert Southey.

Notes

1. Southey had visited New Lanark on 28 September 1819 and commented on his visit in his journal. This was later published as Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819, ed. Charles Harold Herford (London, 1929), pp. 258–266. The mill and surrounding community were owned and managed by Robert Owen (1771–1858; DNB), 1799–1825.[back]
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