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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 25. Not previously published.
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Because there are not demands enough upon my poor Ways & Means I have received this evening a demand of £7. for
Absent Commons at Grays Inn to end of Trinity 1814. With an NB. saying “Mr Southeys address not being known until
now, is the reason he hath not been applied to before for his Ab. Coms.” – As my address might at any time have
been as easily discovered as at the present, this is a very insufficient reason for suffering an account to accumulate against me for
fourteen years. It is however well that it amounts to no heavier a sum. Call for me I pray you at the Stewards Office, & secure me
against any future demands, when you discharge this, by seeing my name expunged from their books. To complain is of no use; & it
would be of as little to regret the loss of what I can very ill afford.
I have suffered much anxiety since you heard from me. Isabel has
had a dangerous illness, – so dangerous indeed that in my own mind I had given her up. Thank God she has recovered, stren
& is gaining strength rapidly, tho not so rapidly as she lost it.
I am finishing an article for Gifford, which in consequence of
many interruptions & lastly of this illness, has been much delayedbehind the
lighter as the phrase is: it will require two tolerably long articles to make the Constable come up with me.xxxx road-horse have but too often been set going by the same impelling cause.
If you review Roderick you may like to notice such poems as are allude to the subject.ls, – the best most promising poet of his generation
Fosbrooke (a man of considerable powers) has an ode upon the same subject appended, oddly enough, to his British Monachism.before about 14 years ago, in which the traditionary account of Florindas death was
followed.
I am reprinting the my Poems & Metrical Tales with the pieces in the Register, & one or two others,
– arranged in three volumes & with corrected as much as they are capable of being corrected, without bestowing upon many
of them more pain than they are worth.
How am I to learn whether an Ode is required from me upon the New Year? or may I take it for granted that it is not, as
the ceremony of performing it was dropt upon the last occasion?
Here is space for some political speculation, & I coul could find speculation enough for the space, – of
no very exhilarating character. But I must break off & go doggedly to work upon the reviewal.