Address: To/ John Murray Esqre
Watermark: F/ 1821
Endorsement: R Southey Esq/ July 12/23
MS: National Library of Scotland, MS 42552. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
Thank you for your remittance, – & also for Battys beautiful book,
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Robert Batty (1789–1848), Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army, in the Western Pyrenees and the South of France, in the Years 1813–1814: under Field Marshal the Marquess of Wellington (1823), no. 181 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library.
– & Rose’s first volume of his lively translation.
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William Stewart Rose (1775–1843; DNB), The Orlando Innamorato, Translated into Prose, Interspersed with Extracts in the Same Stanza as the Original (1823), no. 312 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library.
If Hayleys Memoirs
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Southey’s review of John Johnson (1769–1833; DNB), Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq. the Friend and Biographer of Cowper, Written by Himself; with Extracts from his Private Correspondence, and Unpublished Poetry; and Memoirs of his Son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the Young Sculptor (1823), no. 1179 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library, Quarterly Review, 31 (March 1825), 263–311.
are not disposed of I will send you a reviewal of them for the next number. It will make an interesting article, & as I have the book, & as many of the Authors works as are needful, no other materials will be wanted. Such books – like wood cocks & red mullets, supply their own sauce.
I am also preparing a view of Charles 2ds reign
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Charles II (1630–1685; King of Great Britain 1660–1685; DNB).
– with the new edition of Burnet for the text.
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Bishop Burnet’s History of his Own Time: with the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished; to Which are Added the Cursory Remarks of Swift, and Other Observations (1823), no. 498 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. This was a new edition of Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715; DNB), History of My Own Time (1724–1734), edited by Martin Routh (1755–1854; DNB). Southey reviewed it in Quarterly Review, 29 (April 1823), 165–214, published 27–28 September 1823.
Send me for this the Count de Grammonts Memoirs,
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Antoine Hamilton (1646–1720; DNB), Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Grammont Contenant Particulièremont l’Histoire Amoureuse de la Cour d’Angleterre sous le Règne de Charles II (1713). An edition from 1811 was no. 1273 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. Philibert, Count de Gramont (1621–1707) was a regular visitor to the Court of Charles II.
Norths Examen,
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Roger North (1653–1734; DNB), Examen: or, An Enquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History; Shewing the Perverse and Wicked Design of it, and the Many Falsities and Abuses of Truth Contained in it. Together with Some Memoirs Occasionally Inserted (1740), no. 2111 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. North’s book was an extended defence of Charles II.
& the travels of the G. Duke Cosmo in this country published a few years ago by Mawman.
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Lorenzo, Conte Magalotti (1637–1712), Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England During the Reign of King Charles II (1669). Tr. From the Italian Manuscript in the Laurentian Library at Florence. To which is Prefixed a Memoir, of his Life (1821), no. 670 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. Cosimo III (1642–1723; Grand Duke of Tuscany 1670–1723) had visited the Court of Charles II in 1669. The book was published by Joseph Mawman (1759–1827), a bookseller and author from York who became a well-known London publisher.
Gifford has never written me a line since the commencement of his illness – I repeatedly asked whether he would have a paper concerning the affairs of Spain & Portugal.
I have sent off by waggon a box of your books containing Strypes Annals
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John Strype (1643–1737; DNB), Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion (1709). Oxford University Press published a new edition in 1824, no. 2753 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library.
&c.
believe me my Dear Sir
Yrs very truly
R Southey.
The printer
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Charles Roworth (c. 1765–1851), the printer, of Bell-yard, Temple Bar, London, who printed Southey’s The Book of the Church (1824).
goes on very slowly.
