611. Robert Southey to Charles Biddlecombe, 6 October 1801 ⁠* 

Oct. 6. 1801. Keswick

My dear friend

I was absent, wandering in Wales when your letter arrived, & am on my return so hastily hurried away, that barely time is left me to reply to the business it contained.

About the beds my Mother knows best & she will determine. the drawers are to be sold – the books could not go in them, & will travel safer in boxes. once more let me apologize for the trouble given you. it does not sit easy on my conscience.

Tomorrow I depart for Dublin. you may suppose that it will be no small comfort to shake hands with Rickman in a strange land. I will write from thence at my first leisure & send you a direction. M^rs S.s remembrance. mine also to your good mother [1]  & M^r Coleman. [2] 

yrs very truly

R Southey

What money remains after you have paid yourself – & my little bill to Quartley [3]  – remit my Mother under cover to M^r Danvers – Kingsdown. Bristol.