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Bodleian Library, MS Don. d. 4. ALS; 3p. . Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), II, pp. 225–226.
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Mr Thomas Boyso 7 Ludgate Hill wants – my head. &
as his request comes with a present of the Percy Anecdotes (40 shillings worth) for
the next vol. of which he desires it, I have told him he may send to you for poor Nash’s miniature.
I heard from my
Uncle on Saturday, – & wrote by that nights post desiring
King to call upon him
& assist him if he can in the business which he will have to get thro.
Mr Shield
writes to me that the King intends to command the performance of an Ode on his B Day:
– a timely intimation for which I thank him. So I am setting to with St George & the Dragon.xx go to
history & romance for my subjects, & produce something scholar-like &
respectable, if it be nothing better.
I am very sorry for John Scott,winging. The seconds seem to have behaved
very foolishly, or worse than foolishly.howev a very able man, & in
the straight way of becoming a very mischievous one. The itch of
personality led him into this scrape. He might have said all that he did about
Blackwoods Magazine both safely & properly, if he had abstained from using names
no man then could have called him to account without avowing himself to be the
Editor.