BIB_ID
316165
Accession number
MA 1005.12
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1818 May 11.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 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
Thanking him for his letter; saying he was sorry to miss him on his last trip through London; saying he will return in December when "London, in London-language, is said to be empty;" saying that in the "meantime I am living in as compleat seclusion as the Monks of St. Bernard during the winter. My time is pretty equally divided between the Savages of all casts in Brazil, the Duke of Wellington & John Wesley. I neither write nor dream of poetry & think of political events as little as I can help."
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