101. Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, [c. 2 September 1794]*
Dear Horace
I have have a long letter written to you but the opportunity offerd by Coleridge makes me write. thank you for Piers Plowman.1 be good enough to send it to No. 8 Westgate Buildings Bath — with the Minstrel & Sayers Poems2 which I want most particularly & have desired Grosvenor to send immediately.
you will hear from Coleridge my[MS torn] future destiny.
health & fraternity. Robert Southey.
Notes
Endorsement: Recd Aug. 5th. 1794 [The
endorsement is incorrect — probably 5 September 1794 was intended. See the endorsement
on Southey’s letter to Grosvenor Charles
Bedford [c. 2 September 1794] (Letter 100) for confirmation that Coleridge visited
the Bedfords on 5 September.]
MS: Berg
Collection, New York Public Library. ALS; 1p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: This letter was delivered in person by Coleridge. Dating is
taken from Southey’s letter to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22 August–3 September 1794
(see Letter 99) which refers to Coleridge leaving
Southey on 2 September 1794. Back
1. Poem by William Langland (c. 1325–c. 1390; DNB). Back
2. James Beattie (1735–1803; DNB), The Minstrel (1771–1774) and Frank Sayers (1763–1817; DNB), Poems (1792). Back