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National Library of Wales, MS 4812D. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Heaven knows how long it is since I have seen your hand-writing. I will wish you speedily removed to some situation
where you may be paid better for doing less, if it be only that you have may <have> leisure for now & then writing
an unofficial letter.
Barker I hope may have made way for his own release – he being the very man who jumped into the river & saved the
boy – as you may have seen in the newspapers. The French have made so much of this in their way of telling it that they ought to have
set him free.Vincejo, under Captain John Wesley
Wright (1769–1805;
Tom has been talking to me about poor Lord Proby.Amelia and died of yellow fever
in 1804. Wynn had previously asked Southey if his brother could recover any of Proby’s papers for his family and friends. For the
request, see Southey to Thomas Southey, 7 December 1805, Letter 1130.xx a tub & dipt them both in – then by way of a sudorific gave a glass
of very weak grog – which was about as bad a thing as he could have given. However both men recovered; – & the system was acted
upon from that time, so that they lost only seven men. Tom himself was desperately
ill – & they dipt him every half hour for twelve hours, dosing at the same time with calomel.
Lord P. was troubled about the DanäeDanae from 1798, until 1800, when a mutiny took place on board the ship and it was captured by the French navy.changed him perceived & amended his own errors – he was almost become too mild a commander. To his first lieutenant
whose who had greatly misconducted himself, he behaved like a father – & once when two of his officers were taken
prisoners – he sent them immediately a hundred pounds each. Every body on board his ship loved him & God knows this is not very
often the case on board a ship.
I am out of spirits at seeing Tom look so old: – For
<In> fourteen years he has been only nine months on shore. He & I & Harry
xxx have never been together till now in the whole of that time, & till now he has never seen Harry but for one day these ten years.
If you see Elmsley ask him from for the life of Dona Luisa
Carvajal