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<p>Cornell University Library.  Previously  published: Reproduced in facsimile in George Healey, The Cornell Wordsworth Collection (Ithaca, NY, 1957), p. [417].</p>
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<head>277. Robert Southey to <ref target="people.html#CottleJoseph">Joseph Cottle</ref>, <date when="1797-12-09">9 December [1797]</date>
<note place="foot" resp="editors" type="headnote">Endorsements: (<del rend="strikethrough">94</del>) <hi n="underline">43</hi> Dec<hi rend="sup">r</hi> 9 — 1797; (Sent, J.C.)<lb/>MS: Cornell University Library<lb/>Previously published: Reproduced in facsimile in George Healey, <title level="m">The Cornell Wordsworth Collection</title> (Ithaca, NY, 1957), p. [417].</note>
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<salute>My dear Cottle</salute>
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<p rend="indent2">		I am engaged in the Critical Review, immediately I requested to review <ref target="people.html#CottleAmos">Amos’s</ref> book — it was in other hands — I mentioned it as what I much wished — &amp; it has been transferrd to me.<note n="1" place="foot" resp="editors">Southey’s review of Amos Simon Cottle’s <title level="m">Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translated into English Verse</title> (1797) appeared in the <title level="j">Critical Review</title>, 22 (January 1798), 24–28. He was involved in the book’s genesis — suggesting Cottle produce a verse translation of the <title level="m">Edda</title> — and contributed a dedicatory poem to it.</note> will you send me up the Original that I may do your brother justice.</p>
<p rend="indent1">	a huge parcel is just arrived — all poetry. this is <del rend="strikethrough">xxxx</del> lucky for our selections.</p>
<p rend="indent1">	If you could assist me with ten pounds — I should be glad. my expences this quarter have exceeded my income. I shall recover in the next. a pestilence on M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Pitt<note n="2" place="foot" resp="editors">The Prime Minister William Pitt, the Younger (1759–1806; <title level="m">DNB</title>).</note>  for raising the price of every thing!</p>
<p rend="indent1">	send likewise my Northern Antiquities with the original Edda.<note n="3" place="foot" resp="editors">Paul Henri Mallet (1730–1807), <title level="m">Northern Antiquities: or, a Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes, and Other Northern Nations; Including those of Our Own Saxon Ancestors. With a Translation of the Edda, or System of Runic Mythology, and Other Pieces, from the Ancient Islandic tongue</title> (1770).</note> You shall know all that I review.</p>
<p rend="indent2">		God bless you.</p>
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<salute rend="indent3">			yrs affectionately</salute>
<signed rend="indent5">					RS.</signed>
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<p>I expected a proof <note n="4" place="foot" resp="editors">Proofs for the second edition of Southey’s <title level="m">Joan of Arc</title> (1798).</note> to day. </p>
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<date when="1797-12-09">Saturday 9<hi rend="sup">th</hi>
<del rend="strikethrough">Sept</del> December.</date>
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