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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, WC 190. ALS; 4p. . Previously Published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), III, pp. 180–183.
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The Kings deathwhen <since> I have learnt in perfection the art of writing with difficulty. However I had begun to think upon the
subject when the alarm was given in December, & had even just made a beginning – for the sake of pitching the tone tune.
How the plan may turn out remains to be seen – it is somewhat in the manner of Dante’s invention, – not of his style.xx not by quantity,
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Another cause of delay has arisen since I began this letter. Longman tells me he means to reprint the first volume of the Brazil, in order to make up the sets, there being about 170
copies of the second & third which would otherwise serve only for waste paper.x
made a good many improvements in the first volume, chiefly from Jaboatam,sertoens, & inhame, the former I had supposed to have been coined in Brazil, the latter to be of Tupi
growth: but I have since recollected that sertoens is also used in Portugueze Africa, & that inhame is as likely to be Angolan as Tupi, & has indeed more of an Angolan physiognomy.the & this comes of course in the first chapter, & must not be delayed.xxx <pick> the
meaning.
Most probably I shall not leave home before the latter end of March. Indeed in case of an early dissolution of
Parliament And if Parliament is dissolved soon,
Do you know that a rascally London bookseller is [MS missing]king Memoirs of the late King in sixpenny [MS missing]rs
by Robert Southy Esqre. “printed for the Author,” “Observe to order Southys Life of the King
to avoid imposition.”xx is, as far as possible to protect all rogues & criminals, the fellow may do this with impunity, because
he misspells xx my name, & lies to the ear, not to the eye, – or to the eye of the ignorant only.
Love to my Aunt –