The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part 2: 1798-1803 A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 Lynda Pratt Romantic Circles General Editor, Neil Fraistat General Editor, Steven E. Jones Technical Editor Laura Mandell 2011-08-15 rce734 letterEEd.26.725 Romantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, MD August 15, 2011

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These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer

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725. Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 6 October 1802 Address: Mr CottleWatermark: crown on shield, K.G. below Endorsement: 163 65 MS: Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, Robert Southey Papers A.S727Unpublished.

I have got the proofThe proof of Cottle’s and Southey’s The Works of Thomas Chatterton (1803). from Estlin. where the reading in your writing is best a pen is drawn thro the text & vice versa. one word I have marked submissasubmissa: circled in MS. because neither he nor I understand it – I have this moment found it out – a note of admiration is wanting.

You will see that in my advertisementAlmost certainly an advertisement for the Chatterton edition drafted by Southey and intended to be incorporated into Longman and Rees’s announcements of forthcoming and recent publications. The text of the published advertisement can be found in The Annual Review for 1802, 1 (1803), p. 975. I take no notice of Sir Herbert Croft. why make my fingers stink by cracking a bug? if you find that any thing is omitted which ought to have been said – you may say it in a preface of your own. of course the new pieces are noted in the Contents.All the newly published pieces in The Works of Thomas Chatterton (1803) were marked with an asterisk against their title in the contents pages of the three volumes. I recollect no other contribution to mention. cram them in if you do. we should not be sparing of such praise. I think I have made Haslewood happy.

The inclosed letter to Dyer contains a guinea for two copies of his poems. This is the safest mode of sending it.

I suppose you will let SheppardThe Bristol-based bookseller and stationer William Sheppard (fl. 1790s-1820s). manage the copies here. I shall pay for two – for my Uncle & brother. my own I am fairly entitled to – to balance the expence of postage for half a thousand letters.

Charles FoxCharles Fox (c. 1740-1809; DNB), poet and orientalist. His book, a two-volume set of translations of Persian verse, did not find a publisher. is in London. I wish he may find encouragement for his book – which is a curious one, & he says, is very faithfully rendered.

King is very desirous to see the proof of his drawingJohn King’s sketch, ‘Interior of the Room in Redcliff Church where Rowleys Manuscripts were said to have been deposited’, appeared as the frontispiece in The Works of Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803), II, unpaginated. –

God bless you – Edith’s remembrance – yours affectionately RS. October 6. 1802.

N.B. A Mr LomaxMr Lomax (dates unknown) had sent Southey £2 for a copy of The Works of Thomas Chatterton (1803), edited by Southey and Joseph Cottle. In the list of subscribers at the beginning of volume 1 he was described as ‘Mr. J. Lomax, one Copy, 2l.’ He might have been either the merchant James Lomax or John Lomax, both of whom lived in Bold St, off Hanover St, Liverpool in 1800. of Liverpool has paid £2-0-0- for his copy. this must be remembered when the copies are sent off. Mrs Newton has had the money.N.B. ... money: Written at the top of fol. 1r. Mary Newton (1749-1804) was the sister of Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770; DNB).