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Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, Robert Southey Papers A.S727. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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The days are shortening – “eheu fugaces!”
There is also another engagement to be borne in mind, which may
facilitate some of our excursions. You & I are expected at Lowther, – & if you will fix
a time for going, Wordsworth will meet us there, & let Lord Londsdale know when we
shall be with him. Any time is equally convenient to Wordsworth; – & to me also, after
next week; – the Gee’s
I find that couteaux de chasse
Yesterday I received a translation of Roderick in three small volumes
from M. Bon.
de Sorsum the traducteur,from in the in the sunbeam for moths, – papillons de
nuit.Roderick, le
Dernier de Goths, 3 vols (Paris, 1820), I, p. 175, mis-translating Roderick, the Last of the Goths (1814), Book 8, line 106.
Southey drew attention to this mistake in his Poetical Works,
10 vols (London, 1837–1838), IX, pp. x–xiii.
Cupn talks with great glee of Netherhall, & Black-caps, & the fea & the fips, – & of every body
there, except the Cupn girl, whom he does not like. The visit has given him a taste
for travelling, & he has frequently expressed his desire to set out again.
Remember us all most kindly to your fireside circle (Miss Fanny
Some poetry from Cockermouth has arrived while I was writing, –
the author has not let me know his name, but given an easy clue to it, by letting
it appear that he is a young M.D.