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<head>739. Robert Southey to <ref target="people.html#WynnCharlesWW">Charles Watkin
                        Williams Wynn</ref>, <date when="1802-11-30">[30
                        November 1802]</date>
<note place="foot" resp="editors" type="headnote">Address: To/ C W Williams Wynn Esq<hi rend="sup">r</hi> M.P./ Lincolns Inn/
                        London<lb/>Postmark: [partial] BRISTOL/ OV
                        30<lb/>Endorsements: Nov 30/ 1802; M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Wynn<lb/>MS: National Library of Wales, MS
                        4811D<lb/>Unpublished.</note>
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<salute>Dear Wynn</salute>
</opener>
<p rend="indent1"> The name of an Edinburgh Review<note n="1" place="foot" resp="editors">
<title>Edinburgh
                            Review</title>, 1 (October 1802), 63-83 carried <ref target="people.html#JeffreyFrancis">Francis
                            Jeffrey’s</ref> hostile review of <title>Thalaba the
                            Destroyer</title> (1801).</note> was quite new to me
                    &amp; I have no chance of seeing their notice of Thalaba –
                    but any Review good or bad is a good thing, for I am afraid
                    the dust lies heavy on him in <ref target="people.html#LongmanThomas">Longmans</ref>
                    warehouse. By the by <ref target="people.html#LongmanThomas">Longman</ref> is about to start a new Review<note n="2" place="foot" resp="editors">The <title>Annual
                            Review</title>.</note> &amp; has applied to me to
                    bear a part therein. the Critical has supplied me of late so
                    very sparingly that I did not hesitate to give the yes – as
                    my old friend the Spanish ballad writers phrase it, – so
                    that in some cases I shall probably have a double voice.</p>
<p rend="indent1"> I have two French histories of Portugal.
                    Neufvilles, &amp; la Cledes,<note n="3" place="foot" resp="editors">Jacques Le Quien de Neufville
                        (1647-1728), <title>Histoire Generale de
                            Portugal</title> (1700), no. 2101 in the sale
                        catalogue of Southey’s library; and Nicolas de La Clede
                        (1700-1736), <title>Histoire Generale de
                            Portugal</title> (1735), no. 612 in the sale
                        catalogue of Southey’s library.</note> neither printed
                    in columns – but I have seen Vertots<note n="4" place="foot" resp="editors">Rene-Aubert Vertot (1655-1735),
                            <title>Histoire de la Conjuration de
                            Portugal</title> (1690).</note> so printed. if it be
                    any other pray secure it for me. I wish now that I had taken
                    that <del rend="strikethrough">xxx</del> memoirs of the
                    Queens of Spain<note n="5" place="foot" resp="editors">Possibly, Enrique Flórez (1702-1773), <title>Memorias
                            de las Reynas Catholicas</title> (1770). Southey
                        later obtained a copy of an edition from 1790, no. 3466
                        in the sale catalogue of his library.</note> mutilated
                    of its prints as it was – it would have answered my use till
                    I found another copy, &amp; then might have been
                    exchanged.</p>
<p rend="indent1"> The Ballads of the Cid<note n="6" place="foot" resp="editors">Southey had transcribed for
                        Wynn material relating to Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (c.
                        1040-1099), a Castilian aristocrat and military
                        commander, whose exploits were the subject of numerous
                        poems and tales. Southey’s English translation and
                        compilation of three of these was published in 1808 as
                            <title>The Chronicle of the Cid</title>.</note> are
                    very numerous, &amp; generally very bad. some of them have
                    fine passages – but not one tolerable enough as a whole to
                    bear translation. I expect an older poem upon Rodrigo from
                    Lisbon as soon as it can be procured from Madrid.<note n="7" place="foot" resp="editors">Southey was possibly hoping
                        to obtain a copy of the 14th-century <title>El Poema de
                            Mio Cid</title>.</note> a sketch of his literary
                    history will make a good note, from the first ballads down
                    to the Epics of Philip 2<hi rend="sup">ds</hi> time<note n="8" place="foot" resp="editors">Philip II (1527-1598,
                        King of Spain 1556-1598).</note> – to Corneille<note n="9" place="foot" resp="editors">Pierre Corneille
                        (1606-1684), <title>Le Cid</title> (1636).</note> –
                    &amp; Montengon.<note n="10" place="foot" resp="editors">Pedro Montengon y Paret (1745-1824), author of
                            <title>El Rodrigo</title> (1793).</note> I mean to
                    do this with all the heroes of romance or history that come
                    within my limits.</p>
<p rend="indent1"> I have not seen <ref target="people.html#ColeridgeSamuelTaylor">Coleridges</ref> letters.<note n="11" place="foot" resp="editors">Coleridge’s two public letters ‘To Mr.
                        Fox’, <title>Morning Post</title> (4 November and 9
                        November 1802), attacked the leading Whig politician
                        Charles James Fox (1749–1806; <title>DNB</title>) for
                        visiting France and appearing to be complicit with the
                        regime of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, First Consul
                        1799-1804, Emperor of the French 1804-1814).</note> As
                    for the politics of this wicked world – his Majesty &amp;
                    his Majestys ministers<note n="12" place="foot" resp="editors">George III (1738–1820; reigned 1760–1820;
                            <title>DNB</title>) and his government.</note> have
                    certainly a very peaceable &amp; well disposed subject in
                    me. all my political irritation goes off in a curse or two
                    at Bonaparte. I have forgiven young Jenkinson for Lord
                        Hawkesburys<note n="13" place="foot" resp="editors">Robert Jenkinson, later 2nd Earl of Liverpool
                        (1770-1828; <title>DNB</title>), Foreign Secretary
                        1801-1804, Home Secretary 1804-1806, 1807-1809, Prime
                        Minister 1812-1827. His father was Charles Jenkinson,
                        1st Earl of Liverpool (1727-1808; <title>DNB</title>),
                        President of the Board of Trade 1786-1804.</note> sake,
                    &amp; M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Addington<note n="14" place="foot" resp="editors">Henry Addington, 1st
                        Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844; <title>DNB</title>), The
                        Speaker 1789-1801, Prime Minister 1801-1804, Home
                        Secretary 1812-1822.</note> is got into my good graces.
                    your cousin<note n="15" place="foot" resp="editors">Possibly
                        a reference to Thomas Grenville (1755-1846;
                            <title>DNB</title>), MP for Buckingham 1796-1810,
                        who opposed the peace with France and the Addington
                        government.</note> puts me in mind of Sir Kay in Mort
                    Arthur <note n="16" place="foot" resp="editors">Sir Thomas
                        Malory (c. 1405-1471; <title>DNB</title>), <title>Le
                            Morte d’Arthur</title> (1485). Sir Kay was King
                        Arthur’s foster-brother and noted for his
                        clumsiness.</note>– he never jousts without getting a
                    fall.</p>
<p rend="indent1"> My eyes are a little better. Chatterton<note n="17" place="foot" resp="editors">Southey and Joseph
                        Cottle, <title>The Works of Thomas Chatterton</title>
                        (1803).</note> will be out in a fortnight. Of
                        Amadis<note n="18" place="foot" resp="editors">Southey’s
                        translation of <title>Amadis of Gaul</title>
                        (1803).</note> about half a volume only is printed.</p>
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<salute rend="indent1"> God bless you –</salute>
<signed rend="indent2"> R S</signed>
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