4103. Robert Southey to Sir Thomas [Dyke Acland], 22 December 1823
Watermark: [partial] crest cut in half/ 1818
MS: Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, Robert Southey Papers A.S727. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
Short & hurried as my visit to the West must be, I should neither do as I wish nor as I ought, if I did not propose to pass one day of it in your society. I shall be with Kennaway
on Saturday the 3d of Jany: with the Coleridges
on Sunday. Monday & Tuesday I propose to pass the one day with Mr Marryat,
the other with you; – if you are xxx not otherwise engaged. My next xxx <point> is Exeter. & as I do not know how your respective abodes are situated with regard to that city, & it would be most convenient for me to take that house last, which should bring me nearest it. Perhaps you will have the goodness to let me know (by a line addressed to 15 Q Anne Street, Cavendish Square) if, & on which day, you can receive me. –
I take the liberty of inclosing a xxxx note to Mr Marryat, – not recollecting his address. I was sorry not to see Lady Inglis
during my customary visit at Battersea Rise. But I have seen Sir Robert three or four times since, & he speaks always of her amendment, – tho as a matter of precaution she must be confined to two rooms during the winter.
Present my respects to Lady Acland,
& believe me
Sir Thomas
with sincere esteem
your obliged & obedient
Robert Southey.
