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. Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), I, pp. 268-270 [in part].
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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I copy for you the most authentic account of the xxxx Στηλαι
Columnarum (quas ego omnibus Aegypti prodigiosis pyramidibus elaboratis, & pictis obeliscis, colossis, columnisq Trajani, propter
ipsa quae supra illas fulgebant sidera, antepono) formae fere fuit, ut arbitror, rotunda, altitudo varia – Auctor enim Stylitarum
Simeon primum columellam ascendit non nisi senûm cubitorum (sive novempedum) mox duodenûm, postea vicenûm duûm, postremo tricenûm
senûm, sive ut Nicephorus & alii tradunt, quadregenûm. Modius, seu cella, sive domicilium columnis impositum, in quo consistebant,
in omnem partem binos cubitos seu tres pedes patebat, tecto nullo, ut libere caelum omne contemplarentur, & omnibus injuriis caeli
expositi majorem haberent tolerantiae segetem & messem. Januas habebant nonnulli, nullas alii, quod tempestatis violentia parietis
partem disjecisset Scalae admovebantur, cum vel alii ad illos enitebantur, vel illi, ad alios se demitterent, quod quidem vel nunquam,
vel ad summa Reipublicae pericula devocati factitabant. Statione porro aeternâ se cruciabant; nec enim jacendi vel decumbendi spatium
erat: poterant tamen sedere; sedisse verà nusquam lego, numquam puto. Nam primis quidraginta diebus Simeon ad trabem se alligari
y. 6.
The otherside extract hath been written many days. meantime the removal of Mr Abbot
Corry & I have not seen the light of each others countenance for this last fortnight. tho (except one day when prevented by serious illness) I have daily & generally twice a day, done the duty of my Secretaryship by knocking at his door. he is now unwell, but mending. I also have been & am in that sort of health that makes me think with regret of Lisbon. As soon as the form of announcing my wishes to the Chancellor is past, I purpose migrating for a week or ten days to Norwich. change will benefit me. I shall be glad to see my brother – & William Taylor. this London poisons my body – & God knows is not the most favourable atmosphere for my brain.
Burnetts pupils have eloped.
I have unpleasant tidings from Tom. he is sent to the West Indies
after Ganteaume!rs Damer
Should you ascertain that these Round Towers were the Fool pillars that you suspect, it will rather favour the claims of the
Patricians