507. Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, [c. 6 April 1800]*

Lend me Coleridges second edition.1

Which is just now in requisition

For I want a passage by <to> quote,

And have not got it by rote.

And the volume shall be returned duly

By Robert Southey, yours truly.

Notes

Address: To/ Mr Cottle/ Gloucester Street/ Brunswick Square/ Bristol./ Single Sheet
Endorsements: April 6 1800; 2 (115); 1800 1799
MS: Bristol Reference Library, B20857. AL; 2p.
Unpublished. Back

1.  Coleridge’s Poems (1797). Back