4172. Robert Southey to Susannah Rickman, 12 April 1824

 

Address: To/ Mrs Rickman
Endorsement: R Southey to SR/ 24 
MS: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, James Saxon Childers Papers. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.

My dear Madam

Your note arrived just as Bertha was setting out, & in time for us to alter her destination from York Place

(1)

The home of Mary Gonne at 16 York Place, Baker Street, London.

to Palace Yard. There, if no delay occur upon the road, this letter I trust will find her. She is to sleep at Kendal to night, at Manchester tomorrow; & on Thursday morning the Lady

(2)

Mary Tolson (dates unknown). She was from a Cumberland family and had set up business in High Holborn, London, as a ‘linen-draper, dealer and chapwoman’. Declared bankrupt on 8 July 1826, she started a new business in Regent Street as a ‘milliner and dress maker’ only to go bankrupt again on 16 May 1828.

under whose care she goes, has promised to carry or send her under safe convoy from Holborn Bridge to your door.

You will find her a timid, shy creature, just at the awkwardest age. It will, I doubt not be of use to her, to be a while from home, & nowhere could she be sooner reconciled to this, her first absence, than with you

You will soon receive another portion of my Waterloo Journal,

(3)

Southey was sending the Rickmans fair copies of the journal he kept on his trip to the Low Countries in 1815, later published as Journal of a Tour in the Netherlands in the Autumn of 1815 (1902). This included a description of Southey’s visit to the battlefield of Waterloo (1815).

– & I hope to proceed steadily with it, to the end.

Mrs S. is a little out of spirits, & out of health. The coming season I hope will improve her in both. She joins with me in kindest remembrances -

Believe me my dear Madam
Yrs very truly
Robert Southey.

Keswick. 12 Apr. 1824

Notes

1. The home of Mary Gonne at 16 York Place, Baker Street, London.[back]
2. Mary Tolson (dates unknown). She was from a Cumberland family and had set up business in High Holborn, London, as a ‘linen-draper, dealer and chapwoman’. Declared bankrupt on 8 July 1826, she started a new business in Regent Street as a ‘milliner and dress maker’ only to go bankrupt again on 16 May 1828.[back]
3. Southey was sending the Rickmans fair copies of the journal he kept on his trip to the Low Countries in 1815, later published as Journal of a Tour in the Netherlands in the Autumn of 1815 (1902). This included a description of Southey’s visit to the battlefield of Waterloo (1815).[back]
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