3466. Robert Southey to Robert Harry Inglis, 15 April 1820

3466. Robert Southey to Robert Harry Inglis, 15 April 1820*
Keswick. 15 April. 1820
My dear Sir
It gives me pleasure to accept your friendly invitation for this day three weeks, Saturday 6th of May. I leave home on Monday next, & am therefore just now in all the business & discomfort of preparing for a speedy departure, & an absence of ten or twelve weeks.
Present my remembrances to Mrs Inglis, & your adopted family, [1] & believe me
My dear Sir
with great esteem
yr obliged & obedient
Robert Southey.
Notes
* Address: To/ Robert Harry Inglis
Esqre/ Battersea Rise/ Clapham/ Surrey
Stamped:
KESWICK/ 298
Postmarks: E/ 13 AU 13/ 1820; 10 o’Clock/ AP 18/ 1820 F.Nn
Endorsement: Robert Southey/ 15 April 1820
Seal: red wax, design
illegible
MS: BANC MSS 71/196 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. ALS;
2p. (c).
Unpublished. BACK