306. Robert Southey to Grosvenor
Charles Bedford, [either c.
11 April or c. 11 May 1798]
*
My dear Grosvenor
I wrote to you some time ago desiring you to
buy some parsnips [1] for a friend here; now my dear Sir Dilatory
Dawdle, we should wait with considerable patience if the
spring would wait too – but the Spring will not wait; –
& so I am daily asked for the parsnips. I pray you send
them.
You are a very good for nothing fellow
Grosvenor Bedford – or you would have said something in
reply to when I wrote to
tell you to come here. however God bless you & mend
you.
So no more at present
from yrs as in duty bound
Robert Southey.
Oh – a man [2] whom I never saw or heard of
has just written to ask me to write him a sonnet upon –
What? for a ducat. so guess & then turn over.
A Manks Herring
The herrings caught in Port Iron, Isle of Man being
richer in quality than the English ones.
I have a great to frank up his letter to Wynn
it had
Notes
* Address: To/ G C Bedford
Esqr / Exchequer /
London
Stamped: BRISTOL
Postmark: [partial] 11/
98
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c.
23
Unpublished.
Dating note: This letter was
written some time after Southey’s letter to Bedford of
30 March 1798 (Letter 300), asking him to procure some
sugar parsnips. BACK
[1] Southey had asked him to procure some sugar parsnips.
The friend was probably Mrs Jardine,
the widow of David Jardine (1766–1797), Minister of the
Trim Street Unitarian Chapel, Bath; see Robert Southey
to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 March 1798, Letter
300. BACK
