826. Robert Southey to Mary Barker, [24 August 1803]*
Thank you.1 We design to start Friday or Saturday. having Mrs Lovell with us we travel in chaises, our way therefore will be to make for Penkridge & drive to Congreve, where we hope to arrive about the middle of the Second day, which I hope will be Saturday. It will shake poor Edith anew when she sees you, but the sooner such shocks are over the better.
God bless you. RS.
Wednesday
Notes
Address:
To/ Miss Barker/ Congreve/ near Penkridge/
Staffordshire.
Postmark: [partial] BRISTOL AUG 4
03
MS: MS untraced; text is taken from Robert
Galloway Kirkpatrick Jnr, ‘The Letters of Robert Southey
to Mary Barker From 1800 to 1826’ (unpublished PhD,
Harvard, 1967), p. 61
Unpublished.
Dating note:
Dated from internal evidence, one of a series of letters
written by Southey on Wednesday 24 August
1803. Back
1. Mary Barker had invited the Southeys to stop at her home in Congreve on their way to Keswick. Back