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Duke University Library, Southey Papers. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), I, pp. 61–62.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I am making enquiries for some school suitable for Harry. a fellow collegian of
mine was usher at a school in Devonshire, at Kingsbridge. to him I shall write
& mark learn particulars. Lightfoot is in orders himself,
a good scholar, indeed there were few equal to him at Balliol, & a man of more
faultless character I never knew. I think from his attachment to me, if he still
be at Kingsbridge that he would pay more than common attention to my brother.
In the meantime it is necessary to remove Harry, as at present he is an
incumbrance to Har
Burnett. will you be good enough
to house him for one night? it is not without something like reluctance that I
ask this, willingly as you will do it. but he is too young to shift for himself.
With one nights rest he will be fit for another journey. he had better travel by
night, on account of the time for beginning & ending his journey; & in
the coach that goes from the Saracens Head, Snow Hill, or the Bolt-in-Tun. Fleet
Street.
Since my return I have been very much troubled with a return of my indisposition. I can account for it by two days inactivity during the wet weather, but it is a sad thing to be affected by not taking exercise for two days & those not successive ones. so now be the weather what it will I walk. this destroys much time & much comfort. my head indeed is not idle. I pursue my plans, view my purposed subjects in every different light, & mature them in these walks. but all this does not make it the more agreable to get wet thro.
The story of the Pythoness stolen away by a young
Thessalian,to dramatic in the Pythoness then a young woman,
exposed to a maddening vapour by the villainy of the Priests, & probably
believing herself chosen by Apollo to the distinguishd suffering. then the
Thessalians superstitious horror – like a traveller on the hill top in a fog I
know there must be a fine prospect, but cannot see it yet. however let the
subject please me ever so much, I will adhere to my intention of making six
skeletons before I dress up one & breathe life into it. the drama would not
be my choice. it is not my own ground, but I think I can stand upon it.
I have begun the ninth book of Madoc,