My dear Grosvenor
In all hurry am I setting off for London, viâ
Keswickiæ. pray
you write by return to Keswick, to tell me whether I may drive at once
to your Crown Street apartments, & calculate upon a
nights housing there, if we arrive too late to lodge
ourselves. – I remember the name Toon by Butlerian
association [1] – but am not sure if it be in Crown
Street. – nor if you still sojourn there.
We – that is Mr
Corry & his Secretaryship [2] – set off this morning
in a Parkgate [3] packet – I momently expect the
summons –
Grosvenor good bye
R Southey.
Friday. 23 October
Dublin Castle
Notes
* Endorsments: 23 Octor 1801; 23. Oct 1801
MS: Bodleian Library,
Eng. Lett. c. 23
Unpublished. BACK
[1] Possibly the clergyman Joseph Butler (1692-1752;
DNB), whose writings were an
important influence on David Hartley (1707-1757;
DNB) and his associationist
psychology. BACK
[2] Southey himself, as
secretary to Isaac Corry. BACK
