I am uneasy Grosvenor at hearing nothing of
you since the Mondays message – give if me a line to say how you
are – if you were a King or an Opera singer I should see
your daily state of health gazetted & paragraphed – do
let me know something about you. I would have been over if
it had been in my power –
Make my respects – to all your good family I
was going to say but Carlo Collins
came into my head & damned the phrase. [1] so remember me to your father &
mother & Horace –
does [MS obscured] never come to town?
yrs
R Southey.
Saturday morning.
Notes
* Address: To/ G C Bedford Esqr/ Brixton Causeway
Postmark:
2o’Clock / 28 NO/ 1801 EV
Endorsement: 28 Novr 1801
MS: Bodleian Library,
Eng. Lett. c. 23
Unpublished. BACK
[1] The salutation ‘to all your
good family’ had been repeated ad nauseam in
correspondence with Collins; see Southey and Grosvenor
Charles Bedford to Charles Collins, 26 September 1793,
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part
1, Letter 58. BACK
