Letter 762 - The Letters of Robert Southey - Electronic Editions

762. Robert Southey to John May, 23 February 1803 ⁠*

My dear friend

Since the receipt of your last letter I have looked daily with much anxiety for farther tidings of M^rs May. [1] that you have not told me she is better gives me, I confess, considerable apprehensions. pray give me a line. I have much to say in reply to your last – but this is not a time to write upon indifferent subjects.

God bless you & yours is the earnest wish of

your affectionate friend

Robert Southey.

Feb^y. 23. 1803.

Notes

* Endorsement: N^o. 74 1803/ Robert Southey/ No place 23^d Feb/ rec^d. 24^th d^o/ ans^d. 25^th d^o
MS: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
Previously published: Charles Ramos, The Letters of Robert Southey to John May: 1797–1838 (Austin, Texas, 1976), p. 73. BACK

[1] May’s wife, Susanna Frances Livius (1767-1830). BACK