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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 4p. . Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), V, pp. 59–61 [in part].
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If I were once more to a-b-c-d-e-ize you for your silence
I have more than one reason for writing just now. The first is a sort
of apprehension that a draft from the Q.R. may have been lost. – When G. wrote to say that he
postponed my memoirs of the S.Sthe
another number, he added that M. would send me a draft for it at that time, – & M. himself in a note which I
received him from him about the same time used some expression which could
only mean that he meant to send it the next day. It did not come however, – & I
raised the wind in another quarter. But as I have not heard either from G. or M. since the publication of this
last number, I really begin to apprehend that it may have been sent three months ago,
& lost on the way.
Another thing which I have to say is to entreat you to get the proofs of this last paper for me, which I requested both of the
Megistos & the Castrator to
reserve for me.
And thirdly as I do not know who has succeeded to the rank of
Sartor-Major vacated by poor Hydes death,
I have received invitations to dine with the Literary Fund,contempt
as the Swede x said of the Danes)sincer well deserved, & of undoubted sincerity: he
marks me by name as one of those persons, who when the Radicals shall have effected a
Reformation, are, as one of the first measures of the new Government, to be –
executed.dungeons to answer me with. Are not daggers as good logic as dungeons? Aye, and more manly logic too,
because the use of them exposes the killers to danger; whereas the
dungeon-logicians entrench themselves safely behind an army’, th stanza of my Ode written in Dec. 1814 as deserving “to be written in
diamonds”.This is the first indication of a sort of popularity which in
process of time I shall obtain & keep for the constant tendency of whatever I
have written.
What news of the Lottery tickets? blanks sans doubt.
Wordsworth was
with me last week. Oddly enough while I have been employed upon the Book of the
Church,
Cupn is in fine health & spirits: all the rest well, or tolerably so
You will do for me what is needful concerning the Westminster
Meeting.xxxx got out at the window on that very floor,
once during locking up hour – reached the wall in safety, descended into a yard
where cows were kept, – & so skipt out.