4235. Robert Southey to Edith May Southey, 20 August 1824
MS: British Library, Add MS 47888. ALS; 1p.
Unpublished.
Aug 20. 1824
Bad daughter,
We have been looking every day for a letter from you, & none comes, – happily we heard yesterday from Bertha that you were alive & had not lost the use of your hands. – Do you desire so large a packet of that second best of all sense (common sense is the best) – which is called nonsense?
The Hogg letter
Probably a letter from James Hogg to Southey; the two had corresponded intermittently since at least 1814.
I will send Miss Charter
Louisa Charter had travelled with Southey and Edith May Southey from Keswick to London in November 1823.
in the next packet. Robert Lovell shall copy it for me. You will distribute my love & kind remembrances among the ladies, according to your discretion, – & present the latter to the General, adding that I mean shortly to write to him.
Henry Taylor dines here to day – & therefore I must make up my dispatches – So God bless you
RS.
