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National Library of Wales MS 4812D. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 48–50.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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You may rest assured that not one syllable of the abuse in the Courier has come from Coleridge.
If it be possible for me to create time for the employment you will see me in the Courier during the course of the winter, or spring. I am resolved to take Jeffray in hand, & give him a few letters there, every one of which shall operate as a most vigorous sudorific. The impertinence with which he alludes to my residence at the Lakes after having been my guest there, fully entitles him to any discipline which I may be disposed to bestow.
The reviewals which this animalcule & the British Critic have set forth upon the Specimens have proved that it is
possible to produce something worse than the book.
I am obliged to you for the newspapers. Scott Warings reasoning, if it can be so called, is thoroughly despicable.
The removal of the Court to Brazil cannot be otherwise than most highly beneficial to that country & to this, as we
shall now trade as freely with the colony as we did heretofore with Portugal. Any thing like enlightened policy is not to be looked
for: nor any thing beyond what cannot possibly be avoided. The Prince
That paper of D Luiz da Cunhasto be Simon Harcourt,
I have no poems, – & long disuse begin to occasion something like an unwillingness to attempt any. Sir G Beaumont wrote to me the other day – & abused me for having left off poetry –
I told him in reply that if the world would buy my poems they should have more, but that they must not expect another Madoc for five
& twenty pounds. – that it was well we should be contented with posthumous fame, – but impossible to be xx so with
posthumous bread & cheese.
You and I are looking for the same great family event about the same time.opposite different circles that we shall never meet
y . 14.1808.