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  1. 2466. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 3 August 1814 

    August 2013 2466. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 3 August 1814 ⁠*   Keswick, August 3. 1814. My Dear Sir, I should have answered your letter immediately, if I had not been engaged with visitors when it arrived. In the course of my life, I have more t ...

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  2. 2522. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 19 December 1814 

    August 2013 2522. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 19 December 1814 ⁠*   My dear Sir, You will wonder at not having received my thanks for your Metrical Effusions;  [1]   but you will acquit me of all incivility when you hear that the book did not reach ...

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  3. 3505. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 4 July 1820

    3505. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 4 July 1820 ⁠*   Keswick. 4 July. 1820 Dear Sir You will have heard, from private or public sources, that when your two last letters were written, I was absent from home; & I hope you will have accounted for &am ...

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  4. 3423. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 21 January 1820

    3423. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 21 January 1820 ⁠*   Keswick. 21 Jan y. 1820. Dear Sir You propose a question to me which I can no more answer with any grounds for an opinion, than if you were to ask me whether a lottery ticket should be drawn b ...

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  5. 3610. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 19 January 1821

    3610. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 19 January 1821 ⁠*   Keswick. 19 Jan y. 1821 My dear Sir Tho I am more than usually busy at this time (otherwise your former letter would not have lain unnoticed so long) – I feel myself bound to assure you, without ...

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  6. 3565. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 24 November 1820

    3565. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 24 November 1820 ⁠*   Keswick. 24 Nov 1820 My dear Sir I trust you will have imputed my silence about your Day in Autumn  [1]   to the true cause, – the delay to which such communications are liable in waiting for ...

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  7. 3543. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 25 October 1820

    3543. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 25 October 1820 ⁠*   My dear Sir I must be very unreasonable were I to feel otherwise than gratified & obliged by a dedication from one in whose poems there is so much to approve & admire.  [1]   I thank y ...

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  8. 3717. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton [fragment], 22 August 1821

    3717. Robert Southey to Bernard Barton [fragment], 22 August 1821 ⁠*   Keswick, 22nd August, 1821. I like your specimen  [1]   in everything, except in its praise of Bertrand. A man does not deserve to be praised for constant worth whose merit consists in ...

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  9. 3702. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 9 July 1821

    3702. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 9 July 1821 ⁠*   My dear Sir I had not leisure to reply to your former letter when it arrived; – a full reply to it, indeed, would require xxxx a dissertation rather than a letter. The Influence of the Holy Spirit ...

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  10. 3713. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 18 August 1821

    3713. Robert Southey to [Bernard Barton], 18 August 1821 ⁠*   My dear Sir Your first letter reached me last night, having followed me to Netherhall, near Maryport, on our sea coast. Your second I found this evening on my return home. There is no necessity ...

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