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A list of Robert Southey’s correspondents 1791-1815.


This list only names correspondents where one or more letters from Southey to that individual have survived, either in manuscript or in published versions.

It does not name individuals to whom Southey is known to have written during the period 1791-1815 when the resulting letters have not survived in either manuscript or previously printed versions.


  • Abella, Manuel
  • Adamson, John
  • Aikin, John [as Editor of the Monthly Magazine]
  • Aikin, John [as Editor of The Athenaeum]
  • Amyot, Thomas
  • Baillie, Joanna
  • Ballantyne, James
  • Ballantyne, John
  • Barker, Mary
  • Barton, Bernard
  • Beaumont, Lady
  • Beaumont, Sir George
  • Bedford, Grosvenor Charles
  • Bedford, Horace Walpole
  • Bell, Andrew
  • Bell, John
  • Betham, Mary Matilda
  • Biddlecombe, Charles
  • Bill, Robert
  • Boucher, Jonathan
  • Bowles, William Lisle
  • Britton, John
  • Browne, Mrs
  • Browne, Wade
  • Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton
  • Burney, James
  • Butler, Eleanor
  • do Cenáculo, Manuel, Bishop of Beja
  • Colburn, Henry
  • Coleridge, George
  • Coleridge, Hartley
  • Coleridge, John Taylor
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  • Collins, Charles
  • Conder, Josiah
  • Cottle, Amos
  • Cottle, Joseph
  • Croker, John Wilson
  • Danvers, Charles
  • Davy, Humphry
  • De Quincey, Thomas
  • Duppa, Richard
  • Dusautoy, James
  • Dyer, George
  • Editor of the Courier
  • Elliott, Ebenezer
  • Elmsley, Peter
  • Erskine, Henry
  • Estlin, John Prior
  • Estlin, Susanna
  • Evans, Greeton
  • Fox, Henry, Lord Holland
  • Frere, John Hookham
  • Fricker, Edith [from November 1795, Edith Southey]
  • Fricker, Sarah [from October 1795, Sara Coleridge]
  • Gifford, William
  • Gooch, Robert
  • Gooden, James
  • Grahame, James
  • Haslewood, Joseph
  • Hays, Mary
  • Heber, Richard
  • Hill, Herbert
  • Hill, Thomas
  • Hogg, Edward
  • Hogg, James
  • Horseman, John
  • James, Harry
  • Kenyon, John
  • King, John
  • Koster, Henry
  • Koster, John Theodore
  • Lamb, Thomas Davis
  • Lamb, Thomas Phillipps
  • Landor, Robert Eyres
  • Landor, Walter Savage
  • Lawrence, Mary
  • Lightfoot, Nicholas
  • Littleton, Edward
  • Lloyd, Charles [Senior]
  • Longman, Thomas Norton
  • Longmire, J. M.
  • Losh, James
  • Lovell, Robert
  • Lovell, Robert [Senior]
  • Lundie, Robert
  • Maurice, Michael
  • May, John
  • Mitford, John
  • Montagu, Anna
  • Montgomery, James
  • Morgan, John James
  • Murray, John
  • Neale, Cornelius
  • Nichols, John [as Editor of the Gentleman’s Magazine]
  • Parry, Caleb Hillier
  • Peachy, William
  • Ponsonby, Sarah
  • Poole, Thomas
  • Pratt, Samuel Jackson
  • Pughe, William Owen
  • Rees, Thomas
  • Reeve, Henry
  • Reid, Samuel
  • Rickman, John
  • Rickman, Susannah
  • Roberts, Edward
  • Robinson, Henry Crabb
  • Roscoe, William
  • Rushton, Edward
  • Scott, Walter
  • Senhouse, Humphrey
  • Seton, Barbara
  • Seward, Anna
  • Seward, Miss [a sister of Edmund Seward]
  • Sharp, Richard
  • Smith, Mrs
  • Smith, Thomas
  • Smith, Thomas Woodruffe
  • Southey, Edith
  • Southey, Edith May
  • Southey, Henry Herbert
  • Southey, Margaret
  • Southey, Thomas
  • Spedding, John
  • Standert, Hugh Chudleigh
  • Strachey, George
  • Stuart, Daniel
  • Taylor, William
  • Thomas, William Bowyer
  • Tobin, James Webbe
  • Turner, Sharon
  • Walwein de Tervliet, Joseph Antoine
  • White, Henry Kirke
  • White, James
  • White, Joseph Blanco
  • White, Neville
  • Wilberforce, William
  • Wilkinson, Thomas
  • Wordsworth, William
  • Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams



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