3475. Robert Southey to [Isaac D'Israeli], [3 May 1820]
3475. Robert Southey to [Isaac D’Israeli], [3 May 1820]*
Wednesday Morning.
My dear Sir
Thank you for your information concerning the French Prophets. [1]
Should you lay your hand on such of the books relating to them as are in your possession, you would oblige me greatly by allowing me to make a few memoranda from them during my stay in town.
On Friday the 12th I shall have great pleasure in accepting your invitation.
Believe me my dear Sir
Yrs faithfully
Robert Southey
Notes
* MS: Bodleian Library, Dep.
Hughenden 246/4. ALS; 2p.
Endorsement: 3 May 1820
Previously published:
C. L. Cline, ‘The Correspondence of Robert Southey and Isaac D’Israeli’,
Review of English Studies, 17.65 (January 1941), 66.
Dating
note: Dating is from an endorsement in another hand. Southey dined with D’Israeli
on 12 May 1820; see Southey to Edith Southey, 12 [May 1820], Letter
3480.
BACK
[1] The ‘French Prophets’ were Protestant exiles from France who showed signs of physical convulsions and speaking in tongues during their spiritual devotions; see Southey’s The Life of John Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, 2 vols (London, 1820), I, pp. 272–284. They caused much controversy among the early followers of John Wesley (1703–1791; DNB). BACK