678. Robert Southey to Thomas Hill,
[21 May 1802]
*
Duke Street.
Friday Afternoon
My dear Sir
I return your book [1] & am
much obliged to you for letting me see it. Excuse the haste in which I write,
surrounded with proof sheets, [2] &
preparation for clearing out from London. – I am glad to have seen you again,
& that Time has laid his hand on you so gently.
Farewell, & with many thanks for this, & former
such kindnesses, believe me always
Yrs very truly
Robert Southey
Notes* Address: To Thomas Hill Esq.
MS: Houghton
Library, MS Hyde 10 651
Unpublished.
Dating note: In his letter to
Danvers of Monday, 17 May 1802, Letter 677, Southey expressed his intention
to leave London by the following Monday or Tuesday. This letter was,
therefore, probably written on Friday, 21 May 1802. BACK [1] Unidentified. But in Southey and Joseph Cottle’s subscription edition of
The Works of Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803), I,
‘Preface’, unpaginated, Southey thanked Hill for providing the editors with
the poem ‘On Thomas Phillips’s Death’ (I, pp. 191-192), ‘with some other
valuable pieces’. Hill was a subscriber to the Chatterton edition. See
also Southey to Joseph Cottle, 24 June 1802, Letter 684. BACK [2] Proofs of
the Chatterton edition, eventually published in 1803. BACK |
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