2446. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 18 June 1814 ⁠* 

My dear Wynn

You live so near the Chequers that I may ask you with a safe conscience to send Duppa the inclosed. [1]  I have written certain Odes [2]  to which he stands midwife, & this letter of his contains certain remarks which he wishes to have at hand to refer to in making the permitted alterations: from what Ld W^m Gordon [3]  has just told me it is very likely the things will be published before the corrections arrive – it is of little moment. Longman will send them to you. I like them in their way, & they will probably x excite little notice now, & bring me no emolument, – but they will not discredit me when they appear hereafter among my collected poems.

I see by the papers that all had been going on well with your children. [4]  I xxxx thought you had had the measles while at school, – distinctly remembering a report to that effect,. – that you were gone home with it.

God bless you

RS.

June 18. 1814.