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Special Collections, The Johns Hopkins University, Raymond Dexter Havens Papers, MS. 24 . Previously published: Andy P. Antippas, ‘Four New Southey Letters’, The Wordsworth Circle, 5 (1974), 94–95.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have another letter from Lisbon. my Uncle
says he has sent fifty pounds for my mother. be
good enough to receive twenty of these towards the payment
of the forty which I received of you for my mother at
Xmas 1797. x
he likewise says he would endeavour to lodge
money with Burnth
of April, passing day being the next, should lodge his
journals & other certificates there before that day, he
having all his certificates except that for the last month,
for which time he is lent to another ship for the purpose of
having an opportunity to pass, whilst his own is at sea.
I look forward with little pleasure to the
month of May as I must pass the whole of it from home. as
one term is to be kept at the beginning & the other at
the end the intermediate fortnight is too short a time to
return for & I shall have it to pass how I can. if I can
find any friend disengaged enough to stroll somewhere with
me during that time it would be infinitely more agreable
than remaining in London. I should like to walk to the Peak
& see the wonders of Derbyshire, or to ramble round
Kent, much of which country I have never seen, & what
would not be new it would be pleasant to revisit. I should
have gone to Cambridge to visit Lloyd but Lloyd is
detained at Birmingham by concerns of more importance than
term-keeping. there is a probability of his speedy
marriage.
I continue enfeebled & indisposed &
look on very unwillingly to the exertion of a journey. here
I have good advice & take all due care of myself. in
London I shall talk with Carlisle
& see if he can mend me. The Pneumatic &
Physiological Institution
Biddlecombe, our friendly neighbour at Burton has lost his
wife in childbed. for ten years had they looked on to their
marriage – & she survived the marriage but ten
months.
Edith is very unwell. her indisposition is regularly every morning – mine very night. this however is better than permanent illness, & change of air will probably benefit us both. she desires to [MS torn]bered.