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National Library of Wales, MS 4811D. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 140–142.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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The Poole Mail will convey Coke
I beseech you send me the verses of Miss Anna Seward;the his prisoners wait upon him. I find this in an old Chronicler
whose name seems almost to have perished. Edmond Howes.
The account you have sent me of the Rebutter in the action at
Paris is subsequent to the action of my poem. Burgundys defection appears
sufficiently important to justify the anachronism & indeed the business
of Orleans first occasioned dissentions between him & Bedford.
Shakespere mentions the thunder & lightning. I find
Gladdisdale there under the name of Sir William Glansdale.
Charles Lloyd is with me — an
unexpected visitor. his poems that made so awkward a folio
My simily which you like of Azrael,
the 8th book must conclude with the simily
which ends line 684. I shall want the rest to lengthen out the 9th for which the business with Burgundy affords not enough materials.
prolixity is always bad.
I think Grosvenor much more to blame in beginning his study of law than in
abandoning it. he has not time for it — nor, as I think, any adequate motive.
true this should have been considered earlier, but he expected more leisure
& has been disappointed. with enough at present, x the prospect one day of independance, &
having no friends who require his assistance, I think it the duty of a wise man
rather to improve his mind than his fortune. Bedford wants steadiness.
he has not even enough to be happy.
God bless you. I will work like a cart-horse to get to my journeys end.