678. Robert Southey to Thomas Hill, [21 May 1802]*
Duke Street. Friday AfternoonMy dear Sir
I return your book1 & am much obliged to you for letting me see it. Excuse the haste in which I write, surrounded with proof sheets,2 & preparation for clearing out from London. – I am glad to have seen you again, & that Time has laid his hand on you so gently.
Farewell, & with many thanks for this, & former such kindnesses, believe me always Yrs very truly Robert Southey
Notes
Address: To Thomas Hill Esq.
MS: Houghton Library, MS Hyde 10
651. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished.
Dating note: In his letter to Danvers of Monday, 17 May 1802, Letter 677, Southey
expressed his intention
to leave London by the following Monday or Tuesday. This letter was, therefore, probably
written on Friday, 21 May 1802. Back
1. Unidentified. But in Southey and Joseph Cottle’s subscription edition of The Works of Thomas Chatterton, 3 vols (London, 1803), I, ‘Preface’, unpaginated, Southey thanked Hill for providing the editors with the poem ‘On Thomas Phillips’s Death’ (I, pp. 191-192), ‘with some other valuable pieces’. Hill was a subscriber to the Chatterton edition. See also Southey to Joseph Cottle, 24 June 1802, Letter 684. Back
2. Proofs of the Chatterton edition, eventually published in 1803. Back