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British Library, Add MS 30927. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 338-340.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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There Tom is a true story for you – or else Dom Pedro who was the Bastard son of King Diniz tells lies.
Yesterday I received a most provoking letter from Edward. his Aunt he says has persuaded him to quit the Suffisante,Suffisante, on which Edward Southey had been found a
place.r Barhamr Exeter. Is not this cruelly vexatious! it is
enough to fret ones very guts to fiddlestrings to be so pestered.
I wish I had seen your storms & your northern lights. streamers we call them here & the name is a good one. I saw some two nights ago very vivid & exquisitely beautiful. they spread like a fan from a dark cloud, now brightening & now fading, the colour a pale glow-worm green but these are nothing to what you must have seen – Iceland is a very interesting place – I would actually go there if the voyage were not so terrible.
I must hasten to finish this that there may be no post lost – for your letter arrived this evening. we go on as usual –
& I am still reviewing – historifying
Our house is pretty near in as much danger in this high wind as ever the Galatea can have been in the Northern Seas.
My Uncle says he wishes you were at Lisbon to take your charts of Spanish America.
In my review of Capt Burneys Bookxxx xxxx wonderful indeed if it had not – for I made it upon the occasion –
Dux is Latin for a Commander. – I have a History of the Methodists