1376. Robert Southey to Messrs Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 8 November 1807*
Dear Sir
If Mr Wynn’s copy of Palmerin1 has not been sent to him, I will beg you to send it to Sir Watkin Wynns in St James Square, with directions to be forwarded to him by the first opportunity. – Have the goodness also to send in my name, Amadis, Palmerin, Espriella, Thalaba, & the Annual Anthology2 to Miss Barker, Congreve, Penkridge, Staffordshire.
It is perhaps too soon to enquire concerning the sale of Espriella. I wish it may be such as may encourage me to bring him over again to England, – having <for I have> ample materials for two volumes more.3
Yrs truly R Southey.
Nov. 8. 1807.
Notes
Address: To/ Messrs Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme
MS: Fales
Library, New York University. ALS; 2p. (c).
Unpublished. Back
1. Palmerin of England; by Francisco de Moraes. Corrected by Robert Southey from the Original Portugueze (1807). Back
2. Southey’s translation of the Spanish romance Amadis of Gaul (1803), Thalaba the Destroyer (1801), The Annual Anthology (1799 and 1800). Back
3. Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Translated from the Spanish (1807). Although Letters from England initially sold well, with a second edition required by 1808, a follow up did not appear. Back