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. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849-1850), II, pp. 182-184 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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I had wondered at your silence – which Corrys servant
made longer than it else had been – bringing me your letter
only yesterday. you gave me no direction. by which I
conclude none is needful – yet the want expectation of that formality has kept me
from writing sooner. – You ask about my printer –
foolish man not to remember that he lived upon St Augustine Back. he now lives in Crane
Court – Fleet Street – London.xx the
friends whom I have here look in often – & I have rather
too much society than too little. Yet I am not quite the
comfortabell man I would wish to be. the lamentable rambling
to which I am doomed for God knows how long, prevents my
striking root anywhere, & we are the better as well as
the happier for local attachments. Now do I look round &
can fix in hope upon no spot which I like better than
another except for its mere natural advantages. Tis a Res
damnabilis
And so much for the Azure Fiends
I am busy at the Museum
Mrs Warner is only known
to me by good report – very good report. her husband without
knowing much, I know well, if he did not write bad books
every body would allow him talents.my eyes <Eye gates>
down to the very end of Tripe passage – to have one walk
over Combe down. Tom & I have often walked there before we
were both upon the world. & have you been to
Bradford?might go now may go
& be damned to them – but I wish so many good things did
not go with them – the pleasures & the feelings &
the ties of youth –
_______
Blessings on the Moors & the Spaniards
& the Portugueze & the Saints I yet find an active
& lively interest in my pursuits. I have made some
progress in what promises to be a good chapter about the
Moorish period – & I have finished the first six
reignswhat all that is important in
my text, & all that is quaint in my notes I shall make a
good book.
Rickman is in
town. he has taken possession of his house – & eke of
what he calls his Scaramouch dress.
Ride Grosvenor, & walk, & bathe & drink water & drink wine, & eat, & get well & grow into good spirits & write me a letter.