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National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 2p. . Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), V, pp. 9–11.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt
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The inclosed is to accept an offer of some peninsular papers which
are in General Taylors possession.
I have two things to tell you, both sufficiently remarkable. – Lord
Bathurstxxx greater.
A curious charge has been bequeathed me; – the papers of a man who destroyed
himself on the first day of this year, – wholly I believe from the misery occasioned
by a state of utter unbelief. – I never saw him but once. Last year he wrote me two
anonymous letters soliciting me to accept this charge. I supposed him from what he
said to be in the last stage of some mortal disease, & wrote to him under that
persuasion. And I rather imagined that the religious character of my second
reply
The inquest jury pronounced him insane,been done,
had they seen the paper which he addressed to them. That cruel law