3354. Robert Southey to Charles Kennaway, [c. early October 1819 or c. early October 1820]

3354. Robert Southey to Charles Kennaway, [c. early October 1819 or c. early October 1820] ⁠* 

My dear Sir

We shall be very glad to see you & your friend Mr Hildyard [1]  at tea – The question of the play may then be settled, concerning which there is at present a difference of opinion –

Yrs very truly

R Southey.

Thursday morning

Notes

* Address: To/ Charles Kennaway Esq re.
Seal: red wax, design illegible
MS: Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, Robert Southey Papers A.S727. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: The year for the letter is particularly tricky to determine. The contents indicate that it refers to the visit of Charles Kennaway to Southey either in October 1819 or in October 1820. BACK

[1] Robert Charles Hildyard (1800–1857) of Catherine Hall, Cambridge (B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826), later a barrister on the Northern Circuit and MP for Whitehaven 1847–1857. At this time he was a fellow student of Charles Kennaway at Cambridge. BACK

Addressee

Kennaway, Charles Edward (1800–1875)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six
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