4068. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 15 October 1823
Address: [deletions and readdress in another hand] To/ G. C. Bedford Esqre./ Exchequer <Post Office>/ Westminster. <Dover>
Stamped: [partial] KESWICK/ 2
Address: [deletions and readdress in another hand] To/ G. C. Bedford Esqre./ Exchequer <Post Office>/ Westminster. <Dover>
Stamped: [partial] KESWICK/ 2
Address: To/ Dr Southey/ 15. Queen Anne Street/ Cavendish Square/ London
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 11 OC 11/ 1823
Seal: red wax; design illegible
MS: Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, 1996.5.327. ALS; 4p.
Unpublished.
Address: To/ Major General Peachy/ Post Office/ Canterbury
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 7 OC 7/ 1823
MS: British Library, Add MS 28603. ALS; 4p.
MS: MS untraced; text taken from William Knight, Memorials of Coleorton, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1887)
Previously published: William Knight, Memorials of Coleorton, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1887), II, pp. 212–215.
Address: To/ The Reverend Herbert Hill/ Streatham/ Surrey
Stamped: KESWICK 298
Postmarks: E/ 14 Oct 14/ 1823; [partial] F.NOON 10/ 14
Seal: red wax; design illegible
MS: Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 236. ALS; 4p.
Address: [in another hand] Portsmouth Twenty Seventh Septr./ 1823/ The Revd./ Nicholas Lightfoot/ Crediton/ Devon/ Free/ JRickman
Postmark: [partial] POR xx/ S xxx/ 1823/ 73
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. d. 110. ALS; 4p.
Address: To/ John Taylor Esqre/ Waterloo Place/ favoured by Mr Taylor
Seal: red wax; design illegible
MS: Beinecke Library, Osborn MSS File ‘S’, Folder 14179. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
MS: University College, London, Special Collections, Sharpe Papers. ALS; 2p.
Previously published: P. W. Clayden (ed.), Rogers and His Contemporaries, 2 vols (London, 1889), I, p. 362. Our text is taken from this.
Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqre/ Exchequer/ Westminster
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 22 SE xx/ 182x
Endorsements: 20 Sept 1823
MS: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Eng. lett. c. 26. ALS; 4p.
MS: MS untraced; text is taken from John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856)