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Houghton Library, bMS Eng 265.1 (18). Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 138–140.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Herbert Croft
there is a French poem upon the voyage of Columbus in ten books
written by Madame Boccage:
The day you left us my drawings arrived from Lisbon: this was a judgement for your hurry to depart. you would have been very much pleased with them. there are above twenty, & among them a finished view of Madrid.
I have a letter from the French Captain.r
Birt
I wrote to Danvers
yesterday & gave him a message for you. you will I hope be able to send
me the book by him: it is indispensably necessary for my fourth book. a very
great progress has been made in the third since you left us. I am sadly in want
of a good library. I shall perpetually be in want of Giraldus Cambrensis
Thomas desires to be
remembered to you. he is about to pay us a visit, & I shall much rejoice
to see him. I shall have some very fine Portugueze views from Thomas May.
Since you left me I have been reading the Saint Louis of Le
Moyne:
They tell me I am civilly wiped in that stupid poem the Pursuits
of Literature.
Do you know [MS torn] Rogers
I must not forget to desire you to give a large copy of the Poems when finished in my name to Danvers & to Estlin. I wrote to Danvers about your copying Madoc. how is your eye? if not well enough to permit your own answering make your brother your amanuensis.
Did you go to Corfe? King John who was
almost as great a scoundrel xxxx xxxxxx xxxx for his amusement*