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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 25. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Here I am thank God, by my own fire side, & at my own desk once more. I left as I expected my cold in the coach, in
confirmation of an old theory of Beddoes that such complaints are to be cured by
abstraction of heat.body clothes I was
colder than I liked, at breakfast however I got a good warming, & continued to keep it up the rest of the journey, the coach
filling as it advanced on its journey. I found all at home as well as could be wished, – & even Isabel had not forgotten me.
Among the things which were left undone on Friday after we parted, in consequence of the rain, were two easy
commissions which you can execute on my behalf. The first is to purchase two little-childrens volumes by the title of Original Poems
for Infant Minds,not buy in St Martins Lane because the volumes were not uniformly bound, – & go
<leave> them in my name at Rickmans for ‘Little Anne’.x Pocko by the time I <shall> come to
see her next.
And when you pay the Docstor the 15 £ & my court fees, forget not to pay him also for my bag & barbering expences.
God bless you my dear Grosvenor. Remember me most kindly to your father & mother & to Henry.
The last thing news which reached me before I left town was a note which Harry brought me to Goochs. – Ecce
“Sir Wm Parsons presents compliments to Mr Southey, begs he will have the goodness to let him have the Ode or part of it by the end of next week if possible, as he
wishes to begin upon it.”
The Poet happens to have the whip hand of the Musdoc upon this occasion, – inasmuch as he
cannot make the music till I have made the ode. – There is a delicious P. L. after Esqre in the direction.