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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 188. AL; 3p. . Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), III, pp. 152–154. Note on MS: The closing part of the letter and signature are not present in the manuscript; the text of these is supplied from Warter.
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I had a great disappointment yesterday in Mr Burns parcel: instead of containing a manuscript
history of Para, its contents proved to be the Corografia Brazilica of Cazal, a copy of which you had previously procured.
Lord Somervillesr Bell,undis quiet possession, than disturb myself with the trouble & care which
litigation must bring with it, – to say nothing of expences which I can very ill afford.
My Aunt Mary has found out that her grandmother was a relation of
Locke, & bore the same name.r Lockes metaphysics, – & with Dean Tuckerof some no xxxx between
oneself & Adam
I have been passing a few days with Lord Lonsdale at Whitehaven. He is a
remarkably obliging man, & I feel quite at ease in his family. There is a comical story about the Cumberland Address.r Wallace,I believe to the Prince, & I know to the Privy Council, & had then
been pronounced to be the best which had yet appeared. – A more lathery composition than that which has been substituted you never
read. At Lord L.’s desire I wrote a newspaper vindication of the first,Morning Chronicle, 26 October 1819. Southey responded with an attack on Brougham’s speech,
[Robert Southey] to Henry Brougham, [before 6 November 1819], Letter 3381, published in the Westmorland
Gazette, 13 November 1819, signed ‘VINDEX’.
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