BIB_ID
316119
Accession number
MA 1005.9
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1813 Dec. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and its placement within the collection.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and its placement within the collection.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from E.H. Wells in 1924.
Summary
Asking him to read the stanzas he has written, not with an eye to criticism, but rather so that he might tell him "if there can be any impropriety in publishing the concluding stanzas as Poet Laureate?"
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