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Bodleian Library, MS Don. D3. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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In the first volume Scriptorum Brunsvicensium (which Leibnitz edited) will be found the Otia Imperialia of Gervase of
Tilbury.readable hand as doubtless the story will be very noteable.
The same Memorandum also refers me to Ordericus Vitalis. Lib 8. p 695 & 1091. which will be found in Du Chesnes
Collectia Scriptorum Normannorum. from p. 319. to 925.familia Herlechini were seen in ghostly form, progressing across the landscape
as if in a hunting party.note authority must either have referred to another edition, or
misnumbered the pages. however you can easily see what of K Arthur is said in the eighth bookx by hunting with your
finger down the pages.
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You will perceive that this was written before yours arrived – or I should have begun by noticing its main matter.
When I talked of 25£ quarterly it was for the next year, believing then that we should pass the summer here & that you might
be with us four or even five months. Nor did I know any thing of what Wm Taylor
would remit you. These circumstances alter the affair – you will want more & there will be more for you, & you must be
sensible that what we have always been obliged to consider has been the means not the inclination.
Independent of Wm Taylors fifty you may count upon the 100£.
I am very uneasy about Tom. the boats of the Galatea failed in
attempting to cut a vessel out, & sustained a very considerable loss, the barge being sunk & 25 men in her. this is
certain but I can gain no other particulars – except that the whole loss is 30 to 40 in the barge. every man was killed before she
sunk.Galatea, a fifth-rate 32-gun
frigate, had on 14 August 1804, made an unsuccessful attempt to cut out the French privateer General
Ernouf (formerly the British sloop of war Lilly) lying at the Saintes near Guadeloupe.. Of the
90 men sent on the mission, 65 were killed or wounded, and Southey suspected that Tom was among the dead.
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