BIB_ID
316184
Accession number
MA 1005.16
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1820 Jan. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 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 convey his gratitude to Lord Bathhurst for "this intended & unsolicited kindness to a perfect stranger;" enclosing stanzas for The Guardian which Wordsworth has sent to him "to be inserted or cast aside, he cares not which. The thought is good, striking & original, but the movement of the verse is to my ear unpleasant & the expression is sometimes forced & awkward. Such as it is, however, I send it;" discussing the state of politics and government in general and Owen and the Lanark experiment in particular; saying "Owen has wrecked himself upon the shallows where I told him he would strike, & endeavoured vainly to direct him in a safer course."
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