632. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, [28 November 1801]

632. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, [28 November 1801] ⁠* 

I am uneasy Grosvenor at hearing nothing of you since the Mondays message – give if me a line to say how you are – if you were a King or an Opera singer I should see your daily state of health gazetted & paragraphed – do let me know something about you. I would have been over if it had been in my power –

Make my respects – to all your good family I was going to say but Carlo Collins came into my head & damned the phrase. [1]  so remember me to your father & mother & Horace – does [MS obscured] never come to town?

yrs

R Southey.


Saturday morning.

Notes

* Address: To/ G C Bedford Esqr/ Brixton Causeway
Postmark: 2o’Clock / 28 NO/ 1801 EV
Endorsement: 28 Novr 1801
MS: Bodleian Library, Eng. Lett. c. 23. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK

[1] The salutation ‘to all your good family’ had been repeated ad nauseam in correspondence with Collins; see Southey and Grosvenor Charles Bedford to Charles Collins, 26 September 1793, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part 1, Letter 58. BACK

Addressee

Bedford, Grosvenor Charles (1773–1839)

People mentioned

Bedford, Horace Walpole (c. 1776–1807) (mentioned 1 time)
Collins, Charles (c.1777–1806?) (mentioned 1 time)
Bedford family (mentioned 1 time)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Two
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