407. Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle
[fragment], 13 May 1799
*
Arch, [1] who purchased of you the first edition of
Wordsworth’s ‘Lyrical Ballads,’ tells me, that he expects to
lose by them!
Notes* MS: MS
untraced; text is taken from Joseph Cottle,
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
Robert Southey (London, 1847)
Previously
published: Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (London,
1847), p. 260n. BACK [1] John and Arthur
Arch (fl. 1792–1838), publishers, booksellers and
stationers, whose premises were at this time at 23
Gracechurch St, London. They had purchased the copyright
of Lyrical Ballads (1798) from
Cottle. BACK |
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