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Ms Hyde 10 (650), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp. 116–118.
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Your books are sent off, & directed to Longmans. The two
copies of Palmerin de Oliva. Amadis of Greece. Esplandan. Primaleon. Polendos. Palmerin of England. Linschoten. Pere Tomich & the
Hist. del Rey D Jayme el Conquistador.was would have brought forth a greater body of Spanish xxxxx lore than is at present existing in our language.
Meantime Cadell & Davies have concluded a bargain with Mr Balfour, whose
imitations of Yriarte have shown him to be a man of tried & convicted incapacity.
I am now about to edite Mort Arthur.xxx scanty, – of old books it contains none except the English Geoffrey
of Monmouth – & the two long poems of Luigi Alemanni.r Goldsmid
The printers copy of Palmerin was I hope returned to you,
according to your desire & my directions. It will show you that I am not an idle editor whatever those unhappy specimens may have
induced you to think. Should this Palmerin sell I would gladly follow it with the third part, if the original could be procured;
I have many things in hand. The Chronicle of the Cidxxx public to let me get xxx <by> it. I feel some pride in having done well,
but it is more than counterbalanced by the consciousness that I could do better, & yet am never likely to xxxxxx the
have an opportunity. St Cecilianobody there had been nobody to have blown
the bellows for her. Drafts upon posterity will not pass for current expences. My writings poems have sold exactly in an
inverse ratio to their merit, & I cannot go back to boyhood & put myself again upon a level with the taste of the book-buying
readers. My numerous plans & collections for them, will figure away when I am dead, & afford excellent xxxx occasion
for exclamations of edifying regret from those very persons who would have traduced what they will xxxxx think it decorous
to lament.
You will see in the Preface to Palmerin that I have tracked Shakespere, Sidney & Spenser to Amadis of Greece.