3092. Robert Southey to Alexander Robert Charles Dallas, 15 March 1818
3092. Robert Southey to Alexander Robert Charles Dallas, 15 March 1818*
Keswick. 15 March. 1818
My dear Sir
It is but this moment that I have received yours of the 10th – & the expected manuscript has not yet reached me. [1] I was in hopes of finding it in a box from Longmans which arrived a fortnight ago: another box is (or ought to be) upon the way: indeed if it was sent off as I have reason to suppose, it ought to be here by the very next carrier. But provoking delays are occasioned by passing from one carrier to another, so that packages which I used to receive in ten days from London, are generally now three weeks upon the road. – This is very vexatious, – & I am truly sorry that you should have had so much trouble & inconvenience. – Immediately on its arrival, I will direct the MS. to Mr Baldwin, [2] & dispatch it by the Mail Coach, – it will be three days going by that conveyance.
Believe me my dear Sir
yr obliged & obedient Servant
Robert Southey.
Notes
* Address: To/ Alex. R. C. Dallas
Esqre/ Little Ormond Street/ London
Stamped: Keswick/
298
Postmark: [partial] MR/ 1818
Watermark: B.E. & S. BATH
1814
MS: Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation,
River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, Robert Southey Papers A.S727.
ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
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