2202. Robert Southey to John Murray, 11 January 1813*

My dear Sir

This parcel clears my shelves of part of your books. Two volumes of the Hist. of Dissenters1 are returned uncut, – because you sent me this portion of the work when it was only so far published, & afterwards the whole together. I return also an uncut copy of Jovellanos,2 because after I had read yours & marked it throughout, meaning to keep it, xxx xx this reached me from Cadiz.

The Dissenters will make a very curious article,3 – for which I should be glad to have at hand the Nonconformists Memorial,4 – The History of the Three Denominations published & I believe written, by Walter Wilson,5 – & Crosby’s History of the Baptists.6

yrs very truly R Southey

Keswick. Jany 11. 1813

Notes

Address: To/ John Murray Esqr
Endorsement: 1813. Jany 11th/ Southey R
MS: National Library of Scotland, MS 42551. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. Back

1.   David Bogue (1750–1825; DNB) and James Bennet (1774–1862; DNB), The History of Dissenters, from the Revolution in 1688–to the Year 1808 (1812). Back

2.   Gaspar de Jovellanos (1744–1811), A Sus Compatriotas Memoria, En que se Rebatem les Calumnias Divulgadas Contra los Individuos de la Junta Central (1811); the copy in the sale catalogue of Southey’s library, no. 3499, is uncut. Back

3.   Southey’s review of Bogue and Bennet’s History; Walter Wilson (1781–1847; DNB), History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches (1808–1814); Daniel Neal (1678–1743; DNB), History of the Puritans (1812), in Quarterly Review, 10 (October 1813), 90–139. Back

4.  The Nonconformist’s Memorial; being an Account of the Ministers who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration, particularly by the Act of Uniformity (1775). Samuel Palmer’s (1741–1813; DNB) revised and abridged version of an account by Edmund Calamy (1671–1732). Back

5.   The nonconformist biographer Walter Wilson (1781–1847; DNB), History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches (1808–1814). Back

6.   Thomas Crosby (d. in or after 1749), History of the English Baptists from the Restoration to the Beginning of the Reign of George I (1738–1740). Back