684. Robert Southey to Joseph
Cottle, 24 June 1802
*
Dear Cottle
I have called on Pine – he was very civil & willingly parted
with the plate which I will send up with the drawing. [1] the drawing [2] would have been sent
sooner, but it was necessary to make quite a new one Rickman not bearing the examination
of an artist on the spot. I would have got the plate of the large facsimile [3] from Pine if he had had it – but that plate was never sent
from London, & he knows no clue whereby it could be found.
Will you tell George
Dyer that I thank him for his books – that I received his yesterdays
letter also & will soon write to him. We shall be obliged to Haslewood for his list of books
& remarks upon them [4] – I saw him & know what kind of man he is. he has hunted
the subject more than any one else. would it not be well if he would furnish
them to print all the pieces from the Magazine that are signed Asaphides [5] – as some with that signature are in the Miscellanies? [6] Mr Britton [7] promised to get some poems for us – I fancy
they are the same which Mr Hill communicated. this you can learn thro Rees.
Dyer talked of sending Haslewoods list to me. that would
be quite useless –
God bless you –
yrs truly
R Southey
June 24. 1802.
Kingsdown.
Mr Britton Wilderness Row Near Chester House Gardens [8]
Notes* Address: To/ Mr Cottle/
Crane Court – Fleet Street./London
Stamped: BRISTOL
Postmark: B/
JUN25/ 1802
Endorsement: June 1802/ Mr
Prifens/ 159
59/ (autograph of Robert Southey)/ J. C.
MS:
Beinecke Library, GEN MSS 298, Series I, Box 1, folder
9
Unpublished. BACK [1] A plate of an illustration intended for Southey and Cottle’s
The Works of Thomas Chatterton (1803) that Southey had
borrowed from either William Pine (d. 1803), leading Bristol Methodist and
printer of the Bristol Gazette, or his son, William Pine
(1769-1837). The identity of the plate is not clear, but it could be
connected to the image of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, reproduced in William
Barrett (c. 1727-1789; DNB), The History and
Antiquities of the City of Bristol (Bristol, 1789), between pp.
574-575. William Pine (probably the father) had printed Barrett’s
History. BACK [2] Probably the sketch of the exterior of the tower and north
porch of St Mary Redcliffe, reproduced in Southey and Cottle’s The
Works of Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803), I,
frontispiece. Southey had originally asked Rickman to produce this; see
Southey to John King, 16 March 1802, Letter 663. BACK [3] Probably the large facsimile of ‘Bristol
Castle 1138’ ‘T. Rowleie delin. 1440’, published in Southey and Cottle’s
The Works of Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803),
III, between pp. 496-497. This had previously been published in William
Barrett (c. 1727-1789; DNB), The History and
Antiquities of the City of Bristol (Bristol, 1789), between pp.
196-197. BACK [4]
The Works
of Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803), III, pp.
526-537. BACK [5] A pseudonym used by Thomas Chatterton
(1752-1770; DNB) when publishing in the Town and
Country Magazine; see Southey and Cottle, The Works of
Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803), III, p. 251 and n.
*. BACK [6]
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; by
Thomas Chatterton (London, 1778), p. 84. BACK [7] The antiquarian and
topographer John Britton (1771-1857; DNB). As Britton was not
thanked for his help in The Works of Thomas Chatterton, 3
vols (London, 1803), I, ‘Preface’, unpaginated, while Thomas Hill was,
Southey was probably correct in thinking that Britton had no new information
to add to the edition. BACK [8] Mr Britton …
Gardens: Inserted in another hand. BACK |
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