BIB_ID
316167
Accession number
MA 1005.13
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1818 Aug. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
In Southey's letter to Croker dated July 1818 (MA 1005.1), he asks Croker for information he could use in response to an attack upon him by Brougham.
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.
The papers that Southey refers to are an issue of "Hone's Reformists' Register Extraordinary, No. 4, Monday, Feb. 17, 1817, vol. I" with the lead article titled "Mr. Brougham's Attack on The Reformists, and His Declaration in Favour of Annual Parliaments, with Suffrage Extensive as Taxation."
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.
The papers that Southey refers to are an issue of "Hone's Reformists' Register Extraordinary, No. 4, Monday, Feb. 17, 1817, vol. I" with the lead article titled "Mr. Brougham's Attack on The Reformists, and His Declaration in Favour of Annual Parliaments, with Suffrage Extensive as Taxation."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from E.H. Wells in 1924.
Summary
Thanking him for the papers he has sent; saying that "The powder & shot which you have been kind enough to send me are made up in cartridges. But whether I shall fire them or not at this time, is not quite certain. The more I think of public affairs the less I like them & to confess the truth, I engage myself more willingly & more deeply in the history of other times & other people, because they abstract my thoughts from the evils which are, & are to come."
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