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These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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There was a report raised & propagated with some industry that the yellow fever came from Bulama,t Beaver,
That Capt Southey of the Pilot I take to be a lad by name William S. who wrote to Tom about three years ago claiming kin, & whose father keeps a tavern in Upper Brooke
Street.
I have had a letter from Walter Scott to this purport – that Canning had a great desire to serve me; – that he talked about it to him & to
George Ellis, & would have offered me a situation of 300£ a year in his own
department, but that the salary was judged insufficient for the attendance required. This thought therefore was laid aside & Scott was commissioned to devise with me any plan that would suit my own
inclinations. He proposes a professorship, – which of course must be in Scotland, – those in our own Universities being fenced about
with tests, which I could not overleap even tho the atmosphere of Oxford or Cambridge were less uncongenial. I have however asked Scott if the place of Historiographer cannot be created for me, with a salary of
400£. this I should prefer to any thing else.which to induce me again to unsettle myself. What the
Professorships at Glasgow & Edinburgh are worth I know not, neither am I solicitous about them, – if one falls & is offered me
it will be time enough to think about it then. They would serve me more effectually by making me Chronista Mor
It will be far better to put forth the list of books in John Bells
hands, than in Sealys.
Our communication thro the Speaker is xxx x at an end
during the recess.xxxx x
Make up this chapter into a parcel & let it go by the stage, directed to x xxxxx
Mr Pople <Printer’s Office.> Old Boswell Court, Strand, London. Have you
received the printed sheets? – There is a work in Dulaus Cataloguein fxxxx xxx in <that
is to be found in> London. One of the partners is an emigrant who was at Lisbon, & used to be a good deal at the Gonnes’; see
Southey to the Herbert Hill, 11 November 1809, Letter 1707.
I spent a week lately at Durham, – my next visit there is to be timed so as to hit the Residence dinners & the
‘Long Main.’ – Cock-fighting being like Bull-fighting to be seen once in ones life & not more.xxx <wine> which you once found at Lisbon with the strange label of Pampo Rodai,