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Dr Williams’s Library, Crabb Robinson MSS. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 544–545.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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I know not how to express my thanks for your very friendly letter, & for the important channels of communication
which you have opened to me. To Abella I wrote immediately, confining my
questions to the affairs of Zaragozaxxxxx
victory near Badajoz to have been the immediate means of checking the enemys progress. I hold myself greatly obliged to Mr Amyot for the permission he has given me to apply thro him to Col. Carol,
I thought those letters from Coruña which appeared in the Times had been yours.think feel & reason thus, than one.
How do you understand the conduct of the M. de Palacios?which <this> would ultimately unite both countries under Antonio, the present Prince of Beira.
It would have delighted me to have seen your friend Madam Lavaggi.xxxx order of things that such a tyranny should be permanent, human
nature, and the moral laws of the world must be revolutionized before it can become so. & the whole of the power of France is built
upon sand. Let but the thread of one life break, – & and the whole of these upstart thrones will be crushed like that in the Tale
of <the> Genii when Misner cut the rope in the cavern.
Longman will send you my new poem.xx <a> saving faith. It
will not surprize me if you rather wonder at the work than like it, for if half a dozen persons in the world should enjoy it, it will
be more than I expect. This feeling should have prevented me from beginning it. It only had the effect of making it lie
unfinished for seven years.