4124. Robert Southey to Edith May Southey, 19 January 1824
Address: To/ Miss Southey/ at Lady Malet’s/ 100 Gloucester Place/ London
Stamped: LYMINGTON 98
Postmark: E/ 2x JA 2x/ 1824
Seal: red wax; design illegible
MS: British Library, Add MS 47888. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
If your Uncle has not made any other engagement for me, I will very gladly dine with Lady Malet
on Thursday. I shall not be in town before the evening of Wednesday, because I must halt at Winchester, to see Mrs Heathcote & Miss Bigg.
To that place city my place is taken for tomorrow afternoon.
I have got the Packing up – as you desired. But Miss B. has other unengraved things of the same kind which are still better. Bunbury himself did not excel her in this talent.
Your liability to cold renders a London life, I am afraid, very unfit for you. And whether I can venture to take you to Norwich or not, must depend upon your capability of undertaking the journey, & bearing its fatigues & discomforts. I cannot therefore desire the Doctor to take our places, as I should otherwise have done, but must myself see how you are.
I forgot to tell you in my last, that I finished my Book
at Crediton, & found the concluding proof sheets on my arrival here.
God bless you
RS.
