2098. Robert Southey to Mary Barker, 20 May 1812

2098. Robert Southey to Mary Barker, 20 May 1812 *
Keswick. May 20. 1812.
Mr. Lister’s [1] letter has just reached me. Nothing but your incessant care could have delayed this event so long, — Daily & hourly as it was to be looked for. Under such circumstances when the evil arrives, the first thought of consolation is that it is over. [2]
Write as soon as you are able, & come here as soon as you can possible quit the scene.
RS.
Notes
* Address: To/ Miss Barker/ Penkridge/
Staffordshire.
Postmark: KESWICK/ 298
MS: MS untraced; text is taken
from Robert Galloway Kirkpatrick, ‘The Letters of Robert Southey to Mary
Barker From 1800 to 1826’ (unpublished PhD, Harvard, 1967), p.
399
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