1505. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 10 September 1808*
Dear Grosvenor
Send the first Kehama to Tom as soon as you can spare it, & send but one at a time, – because sailors have not many pleasures, & it will be a great one to him whenever one of these packets arrives. – 1 The third quam celerrime2
God bless you RS.
Mr Catton,3 Henry Whites tutor dines here tomorrow.
Sept 10. 1808.
Notes
Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqr/ [in another hand] 9 Stafford
Place/ Pimlico
Endorsement: 10 Sept 1808
MS: Bodleian Library, Eng. Lett. c. 24. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. Back
1. Southey was sending his brother Thomas drafts of The Curse of Kehama (1810). Back
2. ‘As quickly as possible’. Back
3. Thomas Catton (1758–1838; DNB), tutor of St John’s College, Cambridge, praised in Southey’s Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham (1807) for his fatherly solicitude towards White. Back