2015. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 11 January 1812*
My dear Grosvenor
I left your last letter unanswered, – not from indifference to it, but because another subject ran away with all the time & paper I had to bestow. And now I have neither the one nor the other. Only – be assured the true physician for all your mental maladies is – the Butler.1 Write that book about the Butler which I have been for so many years calling upon you to write.2
RS.
Jany 11. 1812.
Notes
Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqr./ [in another hand] Exchequer/ J.
C. Herries
Endorsement: 11 Jany 1812
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 24. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. Back
1. A private joke between Southey and Bedford concerning a comic hero they had invented called ‘the Butler’. Back
2. This was not written. Back