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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, 1996.5.84. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp.259–260.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have a letter from mi buen amigoafford support an expence of more than 40 or 50 guineas per annum. Now will you with as little
delay as possible, learn for me what the terms are at your xxxxxxx <great> Babylonish Nursery,x lad within my reach, & I shall be glad to show him some
kindnesses for his fathers sake.
Young Abella is destined for the political line, – the first object of course is to make him a sound classic, &
any xxxxxxxx direct professional studies xx may well be left till he has is seventeen or
eighteen. You can learn for me whether he is likely to be made a good scholar at this new Douay, – what the terms are,
& when the vacations & what the additional charge if they be past at the College. If the boy should prove
what I wish & what his father represents him, he should spend his holydays with me.
I suppose the Lt Cattle of the Gazette who has to thank the Catalans for
not being on his way into Fran to Verdun is Sarahs brother.t
Cattle’ of HMS Blake on 26 January 1812 and his release after the defeat of his
French captors by a Spanish force. Presumably this was a mis-print for Lieutenant Castle (first name and dates unknown),
brother of Sarah Southey. Verdun was a French prison and fortress.
D Manuel Abella is a Zaragozan, a man of letters, & xxx well versed in
the history & antiquities of his country. Before the Revolution he was one of the persons appointed to prepare the
great edition of the Partidas