2292. Robert Southey to Henry Herbert Southey, 21 August 1813*

Saturday – Aug 21. 1813.My dear Harry

I am weary of waiting, & therefore in xxx expectation that the lump on my eye lid will disperse in the meantime, I have taken my place in Thursdays mail, the coach from here to Penrith serving on Wednesday. So, Deo volente,1 I shall breakfast with your Lordship on this day week. Will you Let my Uncle know this by twopenny post, & you will save him ten pence, at the cost of only the paper to yourself.

I am “at the receipt of custom”2 – this being the full Laking season. This evening, Professor Monk3 came here with some travelling companion.

RS.

Notes

Address: To/ Dr Southey,/ 28. Queen Anne Street, West,/ London
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: E/ 24 AU 24/ 1813
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Don. d. 3. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. Back

1.   i.e. ‘God willing’. Back

2.  Matthew 9: 9. Back

3.   James Henry Monk (1784–1856; DNB), who had been elected Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge in 1809. His travelling companion is unidentified. Back