These pages provide information about contemporaries to whom Southey was connected, in particular, correspondents, family and friends.
Information about minor acquaintances and about contemporaries whom Southey did not meet or correspond with can be found in the editorial notes to individual letters.
DNB indicates that further information can be found in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Address: To/ Humphrey Senhouse Esqre/ Netherhall/ Maryport
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Seal: red wax
Endorsement: Health of C. E. Henry who was wounded in the head by the bursting of a cannon which he had overloaded to fire a salute.
MS: MS untraced; text is taken from Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850)
Address: To/ Humphrey Senhouse Esqre/ Netherhall/ Maryport
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Seal: red wax
Endorsement: 1823/ 29th Decr./ Mr Southey/ 2nd Vol to come down to Massenas retreat & defeat/ At Fuentes d’Onoro
MS: Gen MSS [Misc], Princeton University Library. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
MS: Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
Address: To/ Miss Bertha Southey/ Keswick/ Cumberland
Postmark: EXETER/ JA 4/ xx24
MS: Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 239. ALS; 4p.
Unpublished.
Address: To/ William Heathcote Esqre/ Winchester
Postmark: JA/ 2/ 1824
Endorsement: Mr Southey/ Jan 2. 1823
Seal: red wax; design illegible
MS: Hampshire Record Office, 63M84/234/23. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.
MS: National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
I have been applied to by Lady Malet,
