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Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 156–157.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I thank you for the letter & the extracts which it contained. they have their place among the notes, where old
Edmond Howes makes a very respectable appearance.the among the few advantages this detestable city offers. as yet I
know not where you will find me, for we are about to quit our present situation. but you shall know our new situation as soon as we are
settled in it, & should you come arrive before that, you may always learn at Johnsons.o 5. Stone
Buildings, Lincolns Inn. he is now out of town for a few days, or the borough of Old Sarum should have saved you seven pence.
Warner
My book proceeds very slowly owing to the printers delay. this has in one view been advantageous to me, as the new
knowledge I am constantly acquiring collateral to the subject, is not too late to be made use of. There is a Library in Red Cross
Street, belonging to the Dissenters, from which by permission of Dr Towers, one of the Trustees, I am permitted to
take what books I want.
I am now engaged in the poetical department of the
Among my employment I must not forget the most important — Coke.x learn history. I envy you who have done with these things, & often wish myself again at Burton. certainly I deem some regular employment necessary for most men — some professional study
to fix them, but for myself I am so thoroughly fond of literary pursuits, that it is not by this principle I can reconcile myself to
law. luckily there is a stronger motive, & unluckily that motive applies to me.
remember us to your Mother Rickman &c. & Miss Barnes.
God bless you.