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. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), II, pp. 1–3.
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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This is an unlucky interference of Scott’s, & one of which I
was afraid, after the manner in which he reviewed the Cid.which then <& how it> becomes of universal interest & application, founded as it is upon a particular
superstition, – & also to show the value of works of high imagination, in taking us out of ourselves, & busy busying
the mind about something which is not connected with the ordinary passions & pursuits of life. – xx
Sharon Turners wifeI do not think has <has not> one atom of envy in his nature.
You ask me about the Bristol Alderman.in consequence after I had accidentally fallen in with the funeral of a worthy of that description.
Take it as the representative of a whole class not as individual satire. The operation of cutting an artificial artificial
iris was performed upon Rushton,was
is Gibson.clo was closed up. It was repeated, & he beheld for the first time the faces of his wife & children. – The
success was compleat, & he reads a large print with ease.
If an occasion can be made of giving you a commission to D Manuel
Abella I will lay hold on it. Do you I pray you bespeak for me an acquaintance with Blanco, who has a right to whitewash his name into its original English or Irish, – his
father or grandfather having been a British subject.
I am sorry to hear of your mothers sufferings. My excellent old
friend Mrs Danvers was tormented in a similar manner for some years, by a complaint
which was supposed to be pruritus anilis,
Should you see Coleridge tell him we wish to hear from
him, & ask him when we may expect to see him again.your <up> your spirits the best you can. You have one bright
point of view in your family prospect as far as relates to Henry, who is in himself, & I doubt not will be in his fortunes all you could wish him.
The children are recovered thank God. Herberts proved a third attack of the croup.