493. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23 February 1800 ⁠* 

Kingsdown. Feb^y 23. 1800.

My dear Wynn

I did not design writing till you should have reachd Gloucester – but for an unpleasant cause. my income scroll [1]  was given in at Westbury– & as in moving about I have paid no installment the whole are now due there. this is a heavier demand than I can answer. with the Morning Post [2]  I have done – & have drawn too lately upon the Review [3]  for the sake of supplying one of my brothers – to be able to apply there. the booksellers offer about a school-book [4]  I, as I told you, rejected – & am by no means willing to retract my refusal: I think it better to apply to you. allow me in justification – for I ought to justify myself – to add that tho illness has increased my expences & lessened my means – still but for this debt – which certainly was not contracted by my own act or will – I should not have felt embarrasment.

God bless you.

yrs affectionately

R. Southey.

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