826. Robert Southey to Mary Barker, [24 August 1803]
826. Robert Southey to Mary Barker, [24 August 1803] *
Thank you. [1] We design to start Friday or Saturday. having Mrs Lovell with us we travel in chaises, our way therefore will be to make for Penkridge & drive to Congreve, where we hope to arrive about the middle of the Second day, which I hope will be Saturday. It will shake poor Edith anew when she sees you, but the sooner such shocks are over the better.
God bless you.
RS.
Wednesday
Notes
* Address:
To/ Miss Barker/ Congreve/ near Penkridge/
Staffordshire.
Postmark: [partial] BRISTOL AUG 4
03
MS: MS untraced; text is taken from Robert
Galloway Kirkpatrick Jnr, ‘The Letters of Robert Southey
to Mary Barker From 1800 to 1826’ (unpublished PhD,
Harvard, 1967), p. 61
Unpublished.
Dating note:
Dated from internal evidence, one of a series of letters
written by Southey on Wednesday 24 August
1803. BACK
