BIB_ID
316216
Accession number
MA 1005.21
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Display Date
1834 Mar. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.0 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
Explaining that his statement was in error but that he cannot find the source material on which he relied; saying he will correct the error if "Murray ever means to print my last volume in octavo;" commenting that "I see no way out of the dangers into which a demented government has brought us, but this is far from making me respond. Formerly it was possible to see some way before us, when man acted upon known & assignable views, & public affairs held their ordinary course. It is no longer so; Who can tell where a ship is going when she is steered by the vane instead of the compass? Assuredly it is not by man's wisdom that we shall now be saved."
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