3502. Robert Southey to Henry Crabb Robinson, 28 June [1820]
3502. Robert Southey to Henry Crabb Robinson, 28 June [1820]*
My dear Sir
I would have seen you before I left town, if this fiery weather would have allowed me to take one step more than was absolutely necessary. – I send you therefore a packet of letters which I have not opened, – they were written to Dr Cowan. [1]
To night thank God I take my departure. What with packing & with heat my hand shakes so as to make hasty writing scarcely legible. – Let me hear from you at your leisure, – farewell, & believe me
yrs faithfully
Robert Southey.
Wednesday 28 June.
Notes
* Address: To/ H. C. Robinson Esqre/ Kings Bench Walk/ Temple
Endorsements: Southey;
1820
MS: Princeton University Library, in a graingerised copy of A. M.
Broadley, “The two scribbling Mrs. P.P.’s” The Intimate Letters of Hester
Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788–1821 edited by Oswald Knapp.
Extra-illustrated by the addition of the 198 Holograph Letters of Mrs. Piozzi,
wholly or partially published in the text, together with a large number of
other Letters, Poems, Anagrams, Epigrams, and Prologues by Mrs. Piozzi; a
series of Important Letters by Mrs. Pennington; numerous Letters and Portraits
of other Persons referred to in their Correspondence, and over 300 Contemporary
Views and Caricatures collected and arranged by A. M. Broadley, 6 vols
(The Knapp, Bradpole, Bridport, Dorset, 1914), vol. 1, between pp. 26–27. ALS;
4p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: The letter is dated ‘1820’ in another
hand; this is confirmed by the reference to Cowan who had offered Southey letters
sent to him by Elton Hamond (see Southey to Henry Crabb Robinson, 2 February 1820,
Letter 3431). BACK