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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 70–73.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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We have had a good deal of illness in the house, which has broken my rest by night & my employments by day. A bilious fever which is epidemic among the children in this neighbourhood, attacked all mine successively, – the eldest had rather a severe fit & Herbert was alarmingly ill for the whole of last week. He is now recovering, but still unable to stand. One of the comforts of this situation is that there is an apothecary who is very superior to the ordinary run of such men within half a quarter of a mile of us.
Your note from Moncada is in good time.do am not sufficiently acquainted with him to do this comfortably.
I find the origin of our word Commodore in one of my extracts from old Pere Tomich, which I was fitting into its place
yesterday. Johnson supposed it to be a corruption from CommendadorComdors, quasi
volent dir, que en les senyories e Baronies que ells havien sobre lurs vassalls eran axi com los Comtes.
The France Antarticque of Thevetxxxx
Brazilian Indians, & shall without delay, put the materials together. This chapter will come in when the Jesuits are first
introduced. I have transcribed for the press just up to that time, – about twenty printed sheets in quantity (160 4to paper) – Some alteration must be made upon the authority of the Hist. of S Vicente,sent transmitted in one of his parcels to some Hereford-Bookseller, if he has a correspondent
there. Otherwise they may make a parcel with Henry Whites Remains
Fr. Manuel Risco – the continuator of the Esp. Sagrada has published a Latin history of the Cid:not
neither venture, nor wish, to write in Latin himself. It is vexatious that we did not learn this sooner. – The Spanish historians &
antiquaries seem resolved to make amends for xx believing or pretending to believe, so many lying legends, by denying or
doubting every thing else which comes in their way: & they speak with contempt of whatever they call in question. I have no doubt
that every thing in the history of the Cid is true, except the expedition against the Emperor, the miracles, & the whole
circumstances of his death & burial: – some part of these last additions are borrowed from the story of Bernardo del Carpio,
Pedro de Cieça’s is an excellent book,this our
own. The Spaniards of that age have not had justice done them for the literary treasures they have left us. We blame the Conquerors by
Wholesale, & forget how many of them left their comrades to amass the spoils while they recorded the history of the great events
which they witnessed, & of the xxx countries which they traversed. I believe no other conquerors ever left such records
to posterity, & the Portugueze are entitled to the same praise, tho unhappily many of their most important works have been supprest
or lost, – in particular the great history of Antonio Galvão,
I shall miss Brito Freirexxx does not mar good matter like F. Raphael de Jesusxxx not
knowing whether to wonder most at such talents or at such a perversion of them.