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Huntington Library, RS 30. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 302-304.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have hardly askd for one cargo of books before I want another –
& this is the reason. Longman
& Rees have sent me certain Spanish
Elegant Extracts to execute for their Annual Review,xxxxxxxx
raw materials.
Poems.
Quevedo.
O Feliz Independente.Care, xxxxx but he finds it is the
home of Indolence.
From the Poets I have collected a good deal to paint manners,
& character the common feeling of their country. for instance – what I found
this morning. the daughter of the Emperor Alonsord
timexxxxx <fractions> of time that would else
be waste. x xxxxxxxxx I have another class of
books – popish books of Elizabeths
My eyes have suffered sadly from the frost. I am about my first
chapter on monachism – a favourite subject. Xxxx
it came not exactly like the house of Hanoverdue east. & xxx xxxxx <was
grafted on> the radical Manicheism of Xtianity. at the period when my history
begins, it had ripened into a good comfortable college sort of system. S.
Bernardxx I like
him for the Crusades. S Bernard gave a sort of Jesuitical unity to the monks,
& taught wise men to renounce the world if they chose to govern it. of
course this called out new fanaticism & the same process of decay went on a
second time. till the spread of heresy alarmed & indeed shook the Romish
hierarchy. then begins a third period with Francisco & Domingo
Longman & Rees have blabbed my namexx ever <see> the picture in Quarles EmblemsOften I am a
good journeyman – but by God I go about such work as you may have <seen> a
turnspit when the cook maid calls him at noon. Paciencia!
God bless you. if London were but half the distance I would come
sometimes & eat x sheeps hearts with
you.
Still houseless – but with a house in view.