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National Library of Wales, MS 4812D. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 249–251.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I have too long delayed to thank you for your Letter of the 3d November, & the manner in which
you comment upon the intolerance of my last Annals.only <owing> to the greater quantity
of the matter which the year afforded. Jeffrey has xxxx censured it
upon this score in a manner worthy of himself,the more <the
better> they answer the purpose for which they are designed. If therefore he who reads the book now thinks it too long, – he who
consults it ten year hence will not be disposed to censure it upon that score. – I am close at work upon 1810, & have this morning
dispatched your honours speech upon the Bribery Bill.
I shall soon send you the Bell & Lancaster – reviewal in a seperate form, so altered & enlarged as to make it a
compleat view of the history & nature of the New System.fall <destruction> as one of the greatest
evils which could befall us. It is the fashion to ridicule the alliance between Church & State, – but if the one falls the nature
of the alliance will speedily be seen by <in> the fate of the other.
You have convinced me about the matter of Privilege,
So Batavia has cost us John Leydens life
Have you any tidings of George Strachey? What a heavy price does that man pay for fortune who submits to so long a banishment for the sake of it!
This new Quarterly has two Articles of mine – the Inquisition,