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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 394–396 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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You will have a third portion of Brazilby (the game he was to play) he filled up one of these with instructions to cede every
thing to the Dutch, – thus delayed those succours to Recife which had they arrived in time would have crushed the insurrection.
Ericeyrao famozo livro, antes perfeyto que acabado, das memorias historicas e politicas dos annos das suas Embayycidas
– que saō quase dezoyto.
From Ericeyra, Vieyrafirst to have been transcribed) I have a make out the whole
history of the negociations with Holland.
The pieces of old Wither are printed by Sir Egerton Brydges at his private press, – they make a very small part of his
works. Sir Egerton is in like manner printing many of our early writers, but I have not subscribed to them from an apprehension
of that the price may be more than they are really worth, & that it is not very prudent for a man in my circumstances
who must necessarily purchase so many books because he wants to have them at hand, to buy anything of which one perusal would suffice
for his purpose.
Do you know any thing of the history of Joam Fernandes Vieira
You will see in the last Quarterly a story which you told me at Lisbon brought in to correct Forbes’s account of the
same thing.such a manner which gives the xxxx lie to all that follows.
Loureiros account of Cochin China is in existence, & Langsdorff in his travels quotes a passage from the MS. which
he had perused.
Frere has just sent me an epitaph for Nelson, requesting that I will allow it
to occupy the vacant fly leaf at the end of the Life.
Roderick
I received yesterday a huge pile of Mr Walpoles papers, of much more value than the former
consignment; tho I have merely as yet seen their titles. There seems to be an abstract of the diplomatic correspondence for half a
century before his time.
A certain M Miot published Memoirs of the Egyptian Expedition in 1804. He has now published a second edition with
certain additions qui n’out pu paroitre sous le Gouvernement precedent, – one of these additions is a circumstantial detail of the
massacre at Jaffa of <to> which he was an eyewitness.
Love to my Aunt & to the ursine nobility.