722. Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle [fragment], [c. 30] September 1802*
Bristol, Sept. 1802.
Dear Cottle,
I was from home, looking out for a habitation in Wales, when your letter arrived. My journey was so far successful, that I am in treaty for a house,1 eight miles from Neath, in the mountains, a lovely spot, exactly such as will suit my wishes. * * *
Notes
MS: MS untraced; text is taken from
Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and Robert Southey (London,
1847)
Previously published: Joseph Cottle,
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
Robert Southey (London, 1847), pp.
227-228.
Dating note: written very shortly after
Southey’s return from South Wales on c. 28 September
1802; the first surviving letters on his return home
date from 30 September, and this letter was written
around this time. Back
1. Maes Gwyn, near Neath; see Southey to Edith Southey [21]-23 September 1802, Letter 720. Back