* MS: MS untraced; text is taken
from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, ‘Robert Southey and Miss Seton’,
Times Literary Supplement (1937); which describes this letter as ‘concerned
almost exclusively with Miss Seton’s illness. She was going to Bath to
recuperate and he [Southey] invites her to visit them at Bristol.’ Southey’s
letters to Seton were advertised for sale in Kyrle Fletcher’s catalogue no.
57 (1936), Item 332. Their purchaser and current location is
unknown
Previously published: Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, ‘Robert Southey and
Miss Seton’, Times Literary Supplement, no. 1868 (20 November
1937), 896. BACK
