BIB_ID
131373
Accession number
MA 432.6
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
1814 Dec. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Robert Southey Esq. / Keswick / Cumberland."
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott, members of his family, and his biographer, John Gibson Lockhart. Items are described in individual records; see MA 432 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott, members of his family, and his biographer, John Gibson Lockhart. Items are described in individual records; see MA 432 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Summary
Praising Southey's poetry; thanking him for his "official lyrics," and observing that they "will make up a trio of real poets who have worn the laurel, Spenser, Dryden, and you"; discussing his recent vacation which he "spent in a very pleasant voyage round the coast and islands of Scotland"; mentioning [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge; promising to send him "a thumping quarto being entitled and called 'The Lord of the Isles'"; expressing his disappointment that he was away from Abbotsford when [William] Wordsworth called.
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