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British Library, Add MS 47891. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I prevented Mrs Southey from writing to Mrs Browne & thanking her for your excellent lamperns
We have had an uneasy winter with the children, – sickness has scarcely ever been out of the house. & Bertha is at this time suffering under a bilous attack. These things disquiet & even
harrass me more than they ought to do, or should do, if we could always regulate our feelings by the occasion which calld them forth. I
have not however been idle upon the whole, – the things of this kind have but too often xxxxxxxxxxx disturbed the course of
my employments. You may sometimes have traced me in the Quarterly. That view of the Evangelical Sects was mine,r Curwens
foolish Bill,
I have been exceedingly fortunate in procuring Spanish documents from the poor Duke of Albuquerque’s
Things however yet look well, & if this country will but act with sufficient vigour we must be successful. Here is
another victory at Cadiz to convince us x once more of our decided superiority over the French, & of the folly of
parsimony in war! – Have you read Pasleys Essay on our Military Policy?
An acquaintance of mine at Liverpool, Mr Koster formerly a
Lisbon Merchant, seems to me to have made a discovery in political oeconomy. He has been writing upon this Bullion question, & the
doctrine which he advances is that the whole evil consists in the error of having fixed a standard price for gold, the value of which
like that of every thing else must depend upon the proportion between the supply & the consumption.
Your little girl
Mrs S & her sisters