* Endorsements: R Southey/ May 3;
[later endorsement in a different hand] Dr Robert
Southey/ Poet Laureate to/ W. IV. & Queen Victoria: author of the Book
of the Church; & the rise of Dr. John Wesley,/ the
pious & ilxxx & Xxxxed Relligionist
MS: Bodleian
Library, MS Montagu d. 16
Unpublished. BACK
[1] Samuel Jackson Pratt,
Gleanings in England (London, 1803), p. 638. Pratt’s poem
was in praise of Southey’s ‘Mary’, Poems (Bristol, 1797), pp.
163-170, and the picture it inspired by Thomas Barker (1767-1847;
DNB). BACK
