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Berg Collection, New York Public Library. ALS; 4p. . Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), II, pp. 195–197; Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (London, 1847), p. 231 [in part, printed as a postscript to Southey to Joseph Cottle, 2 September 1817; see The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Five, Letter 3020].
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Thank you for your little volume.But I cannot say that My own practise is to say as little as possible by
way of preface, & when I make any innovations upon established usages of poetry,
& introduce any experiments in versification, to leave the reader to find them
out for himself, & discover if he can upon what principle I have proceeded.
Kehama I believe passed thro the reviews without the slightest remark upon the
novelties of this kind which it contained: whereas if I had called attention to them,
they would of xx have been abused as a matter of course.
It will not be very long before I shall hope to send you the
concluding volume of my Brazilian history – of which 63 sheets are printed; & I
& the printer (your old acquaintance Pople) are steadily proceeding towards the
end of our respective labours.overthrow <destruction> of their meritorious labours.
Hartley C.
has done himself great credit at Oxford.whxxx in which wherein he had not
been instructed. He is now on the point of taking his degree. There is a good
prospect of sending Derwent to Cambridge,
The children are well – God be thanked. The eldest is in her
fifteenth year – the youngest in her seventh; – & after so long an interval,
Mrs
S. is at this time expecting every week to be confined.expected event from being a matter of joyful expectation, – which, but
for that feeling, it would otherwise have been. But He by whom all things are
appointed, appoints all things for the best if we believe them to be so, & so in
reliance upon Him, receive them.
Remember us most kindly to your sisters, & to Robert when you communicate with him.
I wish you would amuse yourself by recording such recollections of
yourself & others as you might think worthy of being preserved.a
port some tablets which I remember to have seen many years ago called the
Nocturnal Remembrancer – a frame, with a slit in it to mark the line, – you wrote
in the slit, – & then moved up the tablets; or a pasteboard frame might do,
the size of a sheet of paper, cut like a gridiron from top to bottom.