2221. Robert Southey to Henry Herbert Southey, 13 February 1813 ⁠* 

My dear Harry

I send you these few lines to say that the 7^th & 8^th books of Roderick [1]  are on their way to you. Lord Sunderlin being very solicitous to carry something to London for me, I invented this commission to accommodate him, & he said he would leave it himself with at in your hands: – now if he should make his appearance with it it may be well th you should know that this good natured old man, whom the first influenza will carry off, is an Irishman, & t elder brother to Malone the Shakespeare-commentator, whose death last year seems to have been a mortal grief to the family. [2]  Lady S. who goes with him, must in her day have been a sweet woman. – We see a good deal of them.

Bedford will probably have given you the antecedent books before these arrive.

RS.

Feb^y. 13. 1813.