1505. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 10 September 1808

1505. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 10 September 1808 ⁠* 

Dear Grosvenor

Send the first Kehama to Tom as soon as you can spare it, & send but one at a time, – because sailors have not many pleasures, & it will be a great one to him whenever one of these packets arrives. –  [1]  The third quam celerrime [2] 

God bless you

RS.

Mr Catton, [3]  Henry Whites tutor dines here tomorrow.

Sept 10. 1808.

Notes

* Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqr/ [in another hand] 9 Stafford Place/ Pimlico
Endorsement: 10 Sept 1808
MS: Bodleian Library, Eng. Lett. c. 24. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK

[1] Southey was sending his brother Thomas drafts of The Curse of Kehama (1810). BACK

[2] ‘As quickly as possible’. BACK

[3] Thomas Catton (1758–1838; DNB), tutor of St John’s College, Cambridge, praised in Southey’s Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham (1807) for his fatherly solicitude towards White. BACK

Addressee

Bedford, Grosvenor Charles (1773–1839)

People mentioned

White, Henry Kirke (1785–1806) (mentioned 1 time)
Southey, Thomas (‘Tom’) [brother] (1777–1838) (mentioned 1 time)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Three
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