I am quite uneasy about you Grosvenor –
Saturday I wrote to you – no answer yet! – I could not then
come for we were hourly expecting my mother –
who did not arrive till Monday night. she is far advanced in
consumption. yesterday & today my own head is too prevents all exertion.
do let me have a line – from Horace
if you yourself are unable. Carlisle
could tell me nothing. he has himself been wholly occupied
with his wife [1] who is but just out of
danger –
Grosvenor you are haunting me – &
tomorrow Corry
[MS obscured] me with his son [2] to
Walkers Lecture [3] – so that then I
cannot come – pray let me know something about you.
R. S.
Thursday morning.
Notes
* Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqr/ Brixton Causey
Postmark:
[partial] 4 oClock
MS: Bodleian Library, Eng. Lett.
c. 27
Unpublished.
Dating note: The letter is
dated from Southey’s description of his mother’s
arrival, which happened on the night of Monday, 30
November 1801. This letter was sent the following
Thursday. BACK
[1] Carlisle married Martha (dates unknown), daughter of
John Symmons, on 23 August 1800. Her ill health may have
been due to pregnancy. BACK
[2] William Corry (c. 1786-1853). BACK
[3] Probably given by Adam Walker (1730/1-1821;
DNB), who was especially famed for
his lectures on astronomy. BACK
