Correspondents
A list of Robert Southey’s correspondents, 1791–1821.
This list only names correspondents where one or more letters from Southey to that individual have survived, either in manuscript or in published versions.
It does not name individuals to whom Southey is known to have written during the period 1791-1821 when the resulting letters have not survived in either manuscript or previously printed versions.
It is also possible to view letters listed by both the person addressed and the person mentioned in them.
Letters Listed by Person Addressed
Letters Listed by Person Mentioned in Them
- Abella, Manuel
- Adamson, John
- Aikin, John [as Editor of the Monthly Magazine and, later, The Athenaeum]
- Amyot, Thomas
- Atkins, Edward Erasmus
- Attersoll, Ann
- Baillie, Joanna
- Ballantyne, James
- Ballantyne, John
- Barham, Thomas Foster
- Barker, Mary
- Barton, Bernard
- Beaumont, Sir George
- Beaumont, Margaret, Lady
- Bedford, Grosvenor Charles
- Bedford, Horace Walpole
- Bell, Andrew
- Bell, John
- Betham, (Mary) Matilda
- Biddlecombe, Charles
- Bill, Robert
- Bloomfield, Robert
- Boucher, Jonathan
- Bowles, Caroline
- Bowles, William Lisle
- Britton, John
- Broome, Charlotte
- Brougham, Henry
- Browne, Elizabeth
- Browne, Wade
- Brugière, Antoine André, Baron de Sorsum
- Brydges, Sir (Samuel) Egerton
- Bunbury, Henry Edward, 7th Baronet
- Burney, James
- Busk, Hans
- Butler, Charles
- Butler, Eleanor
- Cawood, John
- do Cenáculo, Manuel, Bishop of Beja
- Charlotte Augusta of Wales, Princess
- Colburn, Henry
- Coleridge, (David) Hartley
- Coleridge, Derwent
- Coleridge, George
- Coleridge, John Taylor
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Collins, Charles
- Conder, Josiah
- Cottle, Amos
- Cottle, Joseph
- Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine
- Coxe, William
- Craufurd, Charles Gregan
- Croker, John Wilson
- Cunningham, Allan
- Dallas, Alexander Robert Charles
- Dalrymple, Hew Whitefoord
- Danvers, Charles
- Dauncey, Louisa
- Davy, Humphry
- De Quincey, Thomas
- D’Israeli, Isaac
- Douce, Francis
- Duppa, Richard
- Dusautoy, James
- Dyer, George
- Edwards, Mr
- Elliott, Ebenezer
- Elmsley, Peter
- Erskine, Henry
- Estlin, John Prior
- Estlin, Susanna
- Evans, Greeton
- Everett, Edward
- Fisher, Henry
- Fox, Henry Richard, Lord Holland
- Frere, John Hookham
- Fricker, Edith [from November 1795, Edith Southey]
- Fricker, Sarah [from October 1795, Sara(h) Coleridge]
- Gifford, William
- Gooch, Robert
- Gooden, James
- Goodenough, Edmund
- Grahame, James
- Greenough, George Bellas
- Hamond, Elton
- Haslewood, Joseph
- Haydon, Benjamin Robert
- Hays, Mary
- Heber, Richard
- Heathcote, William
- Heraud, John Abraham
- Hill, Edward
- Hill, Herbert
- Hill, Thomas
- Hogg, Edward
- Hogg, James
- Holroyd, John Baker, 1st Earl of Sheffield
- Holworthy, Samuel
- Horseman, John
- Howley, William
- Hughes, Mary Ann Watts
- Hutchinson, Sara
- Inglis, Robert Harry, 2nd Baronet
- James, Harry
- Jebb, John
- Jenkinson, Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
- Jensort, H. S.
- Kennaway, Charles
- Kenyon, John
- King, John
- Knighton, Sir William
- Knowles, Herbert
- Koster, Henry
- Koster, John Theodore
- Laing, David
- Lamb, Thomas Davis
- Lamb, Thomas Phillipps
- Landor, Robert Eyres
- Landor, Walter Savage
- Latrobe, Christian Ignatius
- Lawrence, Mary
- Lawrence, Thomas [as President of the Royal Academy]
- Lightfoot, Nicholas
- Littleton, Edward
- Lloyd, Charles [Senior]
- Locker, Edward Hawke
- Longman, Thomas Norton
- Longmire, John Martyn
- Losh, James
- Lovell, John Hill
- Lovell, Miss
- Lovell, Robert
- Lovell, Robert [Senior], and family
- Lowther, William, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
- Lundie, Robert
- Markland, James Heywood
- Mason, Henry Joseph Monck
- Maurice, Michael
- May, John
- Maynard, Miss
- Miller, John
- Mitford, George
- Mitford, John
- Moncreiff, James Wellwood, 9th Baronet
- Montagu, Anna
- Montgomery, James
- Moor, Edward
- Morgan, John James
- Morrison, John
- Murray, John
- Nash, Edward
- Neale, Cornelius
- Nichols, John [as Editor of the Gentleman’s Magazine]
- Noel, Leland
- Parry, Caleb Hillier
- Peachy, William
- Phillips, Richard [as proprietor of the Monthly Magazine]
- Phillpotts, Henry
- Ponsonby, Sarah
- Poole, Thomas
- Pratt, Samuel Jackson
- Pughe, William Owen
- Rees, Owen
- Rees, Thomas
- Reeve, Henry
- Reid, Samuel
- Rickman, John
- Rickman, Susannah
- Roberts, Edward
- Robinson, Henry Crabb
- Rogers, Samuel
- Roscoe, William
- Rushton, Edward
- Scott, Walter
- Senhouse, Humphrey
- Seton, Barbara
- Seward, Anna
- Seward, Miss [a sister of Edmund Seward]
- Sharp, Richard
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Shield, William
- Smith, Grace
- Smith, Thomas
- Smith, Thomas Woodruffe
- Smith, William
- Smith, William Hawkes
- Smyth, William
- Southey, Bertha
- Southey, Edith May
- Southey, Henry Herbert
- Southey, Herbert
- Southey, Isabel
- Southey, Katharine
- Southey, Margaret
- Southey, Thomas
- Spafford, Horatio Gates
- Spedding, John
- Standert, Hugh Chudleigh
- Stanger, James
- Strachey, George
- Stuart, Daniel [as Editor of the Morning Post and, later, the Courier]
- Tate, James
- Taylor, William
- Thomas, William Bowyer
- Thompson, Thomas
- Ticknor, George
- Tighe, Richard
- Tilbrook, Samuel
- Tobin, James Webbe
- Townshend, Chauncy Hare
- Turner, Dawson
- Turner, Sharon
- Walwein de Tervliet, Joseph Antoine
- Ware, John [as Editor of the Cumberland Pacquet and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser]
- Westall, William
- White, Henry Kirke
- White, James
- White, (John) Neville
- White, Joseph Blanco
- Wilberforce, William
- Wilkinson, Thomas
- Williams, Helen Maria
- Wilson, Glocester
- Wilson, John
- Wordsworth, Christopher
- Wordsworth, William
- Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams
