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British Library, Add MS 75299. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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I have received your little packet just long enough to peruse its contents.
The evening which I past at your house in the Cloisters more than eighteen years ago, is still
fresh in my remembrance.
Some of his Radical Songsxxxxx in venturing to
incur the obloquy, not to say danger, to which such service exposes a man in such times. For a more flagitious
banditti than are now leagued against the institutions of this country never disgraced human nature. I have long
seen to what the course of events is tending, & long since pointed out what would be the inevitable effects if
an unchained press were suffered to act upon a manufacturing population. Our Messalina however is doing
unintentional good by hastening a crisis, which would be the more dangerous the longer it is delayed.
Mrs Southey desires me
to present her remembrances. Express mine also to Dr Hughes, & my best wishes to your son that he may go on & prosper in literature, & in
all his other undertakings.