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Berg Collection, New York Public LibraryEndorsement: Ansd Dec 14. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), II, pp. 109–111.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I am three hundred miles from town, & were I there upon the spot I should not know of whom to ask a question
which it behoves me to have resolved, – except of you. New Years Day is at hand, & whether I am expected to bring forth a New
Years Ode more nefasto majorum,m Parsons wrote to me as I was leaving town, & desired
he might have the Ode as soon as possible. I sent him such a portion as made a whole of itself sufficient for his purpose; &
that I might not be deficient in any proper civility, told him that if any other parts of the Carmenxxxx think it must have been waived, because no part of the poem appeared in the papers till the
whole was published;bona fide better employed?
If you are of the opinion that I may hold myself absolved, shall I insert these lines in a copy of Roderick,xxx ought to be done & could not without some impropriety be left undone.
The si quid meruiaere perennius;
Few public measures have ever given me so much satisfaction as your late Admiralty measures.s. per day. These measures were announced publicly in January 1815.
Will you not smile to hear that I had written not less than fifty six-lined stanzas upon the intended marriage with
the Prince of Orange; – a good many of which are not convertible to the xxx xx any other Prince.xxx at my disappointment. It is not the first time that in a restless apprehension of
being too late, I have been <found myself> too soon.
Ferdinandxxx they
xxx struck off in his presence inscriptions to his honour in Castillan, Latin, Greek, Hebrew & Arabic, – &
these are the only importations I can now get from Spain!