4056. Robert Southey to John Murray, 6 September [1823]

Address: To/ John Murray Esq^r
Endorsement: R. Southey/ Sept 6/23
MS: National Library of Scotland, MS 42552. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.

My dear Sir

I send you the conclusion of the Article

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– For your next you shall have a paper upon America from Dwights Travels,

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written in a better temper than those which have excited so much irritation among th in the Americans. Of course I must shall slide into this conciliatory tone with the best grace I can.

Pray send me the clean sheets of the B. Church.

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It will soon be finished now. – I have also made such progress in the Dialogues

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that Westalls drawings

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had better be put into the Engravers hands.

believe me my dear Sir
Yrs very truly
Robert Southey.

Keswick 6 Sep^t.

I am very sorry that some engagements here prevented me from meeting M^r Canning at Storrs.

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Notes

1. Southey’s review of 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Suppressed Passages of the First Volume and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished; to Which are Added the Cursory Remarks of Swift, and Other Observations (1823), no. 498 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library.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, and used the occasion to survey the reign of Charles II (1630–1685; King of Great Britain 1660–1685; DNB).[back]

2. Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), Travels in New-England and New-York (1821–1822), no. 881 in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library. It was reviewed by Southey in Quarterly Review, 30 (October 1823), 1–40, published 17 April 1824.[back]

3. Southey’s The Book of the Church (1824).[back]

4. Southey’s Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829).[back]

5. Westall had produced six sketches of Lake District scenes that were engraved for Sir Thomas More: vol. I: ‘Druidical Stones near Keswick’, Derwentwater, Bassenthwaite-water, and Skiddaw, from Walla Crag’, and ‘Derwentwater from Strandshagg’; and vol. II: ‘Crosthwaite Church and Skiddaw’, ‘Greta Hall, Derwentwater, and Newlands’, and ‘Tarn of Blencathra’.[back]

6. Storrs Hall, Windermere, the home of John Bolton (1756–1837), a Liverpool merchant and prominent supporter of George Canning as MP for the city.[back]

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