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National Library of Wales, MS 4812D. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 320–322 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Booksellers when they share the profits, take the risk. That they themselves xxx wish to keep their
customary lawhad were to have two thirds, they, the publishers, could then make such deductions
under various heads as would make the net <render his> receipts less than the half (thus impudently it was stated);
& secondly he said that if the Remains belonged to the family, the Lifer Southey 25£ for it. – This was if possible more impudent than the former assertion. The fact was that a few months
before when I was in town Longman had sent me 25£ with a note saying that as the
publishers had found the Remains so profitable they thought it proper to present me with that sum for the trouble
I had taken in editing the work. – You may readily suppose what sort of a letter to Longman this called forth from me;customary law. Neville yielded
the point at the time, conceiving of course that it was always in his power to take the whole property into his own disposal. But upon
Vernor & Hoods bankruptcy, their share xx was sold, & the affair is now in the Lawyers hands; – in what state Sharon Turner can inform you, if you have an opportunity of seeing him during the
progress of the Committee.any man who every man xxxx must do who finds himself tricked out of a part of his
property.
Your proposed clause will be a real benefit to the authors.
I have the 4to edition of Maffeus.
I shall have done with Annual Registers when the Edinburgh fails.not <scarcely> one is sold in England. This is like x what you rode upon in
your theme, an insurmountable obstacle.
No man can think more mournfully than I do as to the prospect which the Spaniards have after they shall have recovered
their country, – & till they have so done I am feel assured that they will continue the struggle, – even if it were
possible that Russia & Germany could be once more put hors de combat. – I cannot conceive that the Queen’s
partyrevolu permanent revolution in Sicily, – for if there is any one point in which all
parties & all authorities are agreed, it is in the abomination of the old system, & the universal wish of the people to be
relieved from it. I shall look very anxiously for the next intelligence, for Sicily was the spot from whence I hoped to have heard the
trumpet sounded to have <that should> awakened Italy.
In the last vol: of the Asiatic Researches that strangest of all strange writers Wilford after a great deal of pains to
settle the exact place where the sea was churned to produce the Amreeta, fixes upon the Irish Channel, & determines that the Isle
of Man was the mountain with which it was churned!
I must send another inclosure to cover a letter from Coxe to Lord Auckland which has been sent me thro my brother