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British Library, Add MS 47890. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849-1850), I, pp. 346–348 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Your letter was very agreable for we began to
doubt whether or no you were in the land of the living. We
have been a fortnight in this part of the world with Thomas,
part of the time at Dilwyn the original seat of the
Tylers,
For Mrs BlytheMars and L’Hercule on 21 April 1798.
I have heard nothing from Lisbon which somewhat surprizes me, as I expect by every packet some supplies for my Mother from that quarter. it is very fortunate that I have been more profitably employed than usual, or I know not how we should have managed. however all goes on well – & will I trust go on better – for surely Tom the world is mending with us. the great difficulty is over & my Mother comfortably recovering her health. She is positively growing young again. & Edith is I think growing somewhat less like a skeleton.
I have heard high commendations of you
somewhat in a roundabout way from a Taunton Lady
My Lettersat early
when at home, & written two new books of Madoc wholly
before any one else in the house was up.
Do you know that I have been caricatured in
the Anti-Jacobine Magazine
I have done a great deal in the planning way
since I have been in Herefordshire. you would I think be
pleased with the skeleton of a long poem upon the
Destruction of the Dom Danyel, of which the outline is
almost compleated.
Edith has
learnt to ride here – she thinks of entering <among>
the Light horsewomen – & I hope to get her the rank of a
Corporella. Did you hear of the glorious take in about
Buonaparte at Bristol?Buonaparte taken!
& the bells rang most villainously all day Sunday & <all
day> Monday.
Tuesday I was at Cottles when the Mail was expected. the Volunteers were ready to strike up. two men kneeling on the church & post office with the flags ready to let fly. N.B. it rained very hard, the four streets full of people all assembled to see the triumphal entry of the Mail Coach crowned as it was to be with laurels. You never saw so total a blank as when all proved to be false! it did me a great deal of good.
Your letter just reached me when I began – so
you see no time has been lost in answering it. for money –
Capt– Dalton