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<p>Newnham College, Cambridge, Harold Young Papers 382b.  Not previously published.</p>
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<head>299. Robert Southey to <ref target="people.html#LoshJames">James Losh</ref>, <date when="1798-03-28">28 March [1798]</date>
<note place="foot" resp="editors" type="headnote">Address: To/ James Losh Esq<hi rend="sup">r</hi>/ S<hi rend="sup">t</hi> Jameses Parade/ Bath<lb/> Stamped: BRISTOL<lb/>Watermark: shield, 1796 beneath<lb/>Endorsement: Letter from Southey the poet to Mr. Losh who gave it to/ JD<lb/>MS: Newnham College, Cambridge, Harold Young Papers 382b<lb/>Unpublished.</note>
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<date when="1798-03-28">Wednesday 28 March.</date>
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<p rend="indent1">	Locke<note n="1" place="foot" resp="editors">Richard Locke (1737–1806; <title>DNB</title>), antiquarian and agriculturist.</note> has at last answered my letter. I had directed it wrongly, &amp; this accounts for the delay. his letter is a very odd one, &amp; unsatisfactory as to the Blue Alms.<note n="2" place="foot" resp="editors">Southey had asked Locke for information about the financial mismanagement of the Blue Alms Charity, Bath, which was funded by the revenue from a farm. Locke had surveyed the farm in 1774 and estimated that it was ‘worth little less than 10,000l. per annum’; but ‘notwithstanding the marvellous increase of rents’ the Blue Alms Charity used this vast income for ‘the maintenance of thirteen people only!’, <title>Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &amp;c. Selected from the Correspondence-Book of the Society Instituted at Bath, For the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce</title> (Bath, 1790), p. 184 n*; see also Robert Southey to John May, 6 April 1798, Letter 303.</note> he <del rend="strikethrough">himself</del> only states that the fee is certainly worth one hundred thousand pounds, &amp; proceeds to <del rend="strikethrough">state</del> &lt;point out&gt; some other instances of money “ridiculously applied.” at the conclusion he says “if you intend to intitle yourself to any future observations of mine, you must give me a friendly <hi rend="ital">critic</hi> on a piece now in Tom Norris’s press (Taunton) intitled An Evidential union with Jesus Christ. Pre-existence of Souls &amp; universal restitution treated as scripture doctrines.”<note n="3" place="foot" resp="editors">Richard Locke, <title>The Pre-Existence of Souls and Universal Restitution Considered as Scripture Doctrine Extracted from the Minutes and Correspondence of Burnham Society, in the County of Somerset</title> (1798) was printed in Taunton by Thomas Norris (fl. 1784–1800).</note> the Postscript tells me what stages pass his door. he is a comical fellow, but we shall get no information from him.</p>
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<salute rend="indent1">	yrs truly</salute>
<signed rend="indent2">		Robert Southey.</signed>
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