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. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 277-279.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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My last letter was travelling after you when
yours arrived. you will have known by that which it enclosed
to Elmsley my
whole history as far as I then knew it. since that Rickman has
transmitted to me the remainder of my salary – & now
that the connection has ended
I am curious to know what effect this will
produce upon many persons who have been officious in
civility wholly & solely with reference to that
situation & the prospects they thought it opened, –
& who by that civility made me understand their former
neglect. the strangest mixture of feelings I perhaps ever
experienced was when Daunceys wife
Your Cid is half done.
I think of fixing my residence near Richmond
– xx if to remain unsettled
in expectation of getting abroad is but a bad policy. a
library xx should xxxx be a fixture. besides I
have materials enough in England to work upon for three
years. it is an unpleasant thing to have no local attachment
– no motive for choice – the neighbourhood of London suits
me best for the convenience of getting books – & of
seeing the friends whom I wish to see while at the same time
I am out of the way of idle acquaintance. these are solid
reasons – but if John
May should not be able to find such a house as
would suit me I shall have as good a reason for pitching my
tent farther from London in the disproportion of expence. if
you were domesticated at Llangedwin I should wish for a
Welsh cottage in sight of the grove that grows over the
house – where I might learn Welsh from the servant & the
xxxxx church service!
but the constant neighbourhood of one friend is among the
necessaries of life.
St Athendius