BIB_ID
316084
Accession number
MA 1005.5
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1812 July 8.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "John Wilson Croker Esq / &c &c &c."
Part of a collection of letters from Robert Southey to John Wilson Croker. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from Robert Southey to John Wilson Croker. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from E.H. Wells in 1924.
Summary
Thanking him for his last letter which he says he will lay "aside among those which I wish to be preserved....because my children will be proud of it, when you will be better remembered as the poet than as the statesman. May you long continue to flourish in both characters."
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