25. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, [c. 29 September 1792]

25. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, [c. 29 September 1792] ⁠* 

Bristol

My dear friend

where is Wynn?

Little did I think when last I wrote to you what would be the subject of my next letter. Dr Vincents arts (I will give him his title) have shut me out from Ch Ch as a very unpleasant note from Dr Randolph [1]  gave me to understand — you will expect me to rage & rant like a madman — Bedford no. I am cool & composed & hope as sincerely as I do for happiness either in this world or in the next to xxxxxxxx perhaps with or be to the xxxxxx. I must in one particular beg your assistance. this as it prevents my settling at Oxford for the present disables me from paying Ginger a bill I owe him. will you oblige me by doing it? as then I have no connexion with Westminster let me hear from you soon. you cannot I am sure expect I should write you a long collected letter.

yours sincerely

R. Southey

I fancy I shall enter at Baliol Oxford.

pray write. direct to me at Miss Tylers Bristol.

Notes

* Address: G C Bedford Esqr/ Old Palace Yard/ Westminster
Stamped: BRISTOL
Postmark: ESE/ 29/ 92
Watermark: Crown and anchor with G R beneath
Seal: Red wax [design illegible]
Endorsement: Arrivd. Septr. 29th. Recd Septr 30/ 1792
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 22. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK

[1] John Randolph (c. 1760–1813), a Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Southey was rejected by Christ Church. BACK

Addressee

Bedford, Grosvenor Charles (1773–1839)

People mentioned

Barnes, Frederick (‘Ginger’) (1771–1859) (mentioned 1 time)
Tyler, Elizabeth (1739–1821) (mentioned 1 time)
Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams (1775–1850) (mentioned 1 time)
Vincent, William (1739–1815) (mentioned 1 time)
Bedford, Grosvenor Charles (1773–1839) (mentioned 1 time)

Places mentioned

Balliol (mentioned 1 time)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part One
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