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National Library of Scotland, MS 3880. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp. 307–308 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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You can probably tell me how I could transmit a copy of Kehama
In your last you mention a probability of your going to London in the spring. I hope either to meet you there, or to
see you on your way. I thought to have been there early in May, but the year 1809 left behind it such a load of labour upon my
shoulders that I know not when it will be got rid off of, & till it is done I am chained to the oar. The history will
sum to 700 pages, which is half as much again as that of the preceding year.
No doubt you have seen Pasley’s Essay,f but fairly excited we may dictate a peace under the walls of Paris.
& I believe also that the Ministry do not want the inclination to act vigorously, – but that they want the public
opinion to go before & protect them against the opposition. These men & their coadjutors the Morning Chronicle
I do not know that I ever regretted being alone so much as when the news of Grahams victory
Longmans new Reviewxx the extension of our sale. I have not learnt who are the proprietors of it. – Not Longman himself, for he wrote to me some eight or ten weeks ago, xxx
wishing me to bear a part in it, & giving me to understand that it was set on foot by some independent M.P’s. – so at least I
understood his language. Of course I returned a refusal upon the ground of my previous connection with the Quarterly.it would be no great exertion
would be required to serve him as Orlando did the xx prize wrestler in As you like it.
I hope you received your copy of Kehama.