4248. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14 September 1824

Address: To/ G. C. B.
Endorsements: 16.382. £10. 30^th June 1824; 14. Sept. 1824; 14. Sept. 1824
MS: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Eng. lett. c. 26. ALS; 4p.
Unpublished.

My dear G.

It is well I have you to look to, – when I might otherwise be at a loss where to look. – Seal up I pray you a ten pound bill in the inclosed, – & get it franked to M^r E Southey, Theatre, Shrewsbury.

My next years resources are likely to be derived more from verse

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than from prose, inasmuch as I am of opinion that my time may now be employed more profitably in that way. So I am trying what may be done by a little resolution, spurred – not indeed by necessity, but by a prudent apprehension of it. – Thank Heaven my shoulder is still strong enough to be set to the wheel with effect.

Much as I have wished for you, I am glad you are not here now when our fine weather appears to have broken up. –

God bless you my dear Grosvenor
Yr
RS.

Keswick. 14 Sep^t. 1824