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People and organisationsCount
Southey, Robert12
Pringle, Thomas1
Opie, Amelia, 1769-18531
Ragg, Thomas1
Scott, Sir Walter1
Unknown1
Moxon, Edward1
Morgan, J1
Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux1

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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Letters: 1

Date(s): [1818?]

Location: BC MS 19c Southey

Note: Entirely in Southey's hand. "Unpublished". Approximately 5,000 words, obviously intended for publication. William Dawson & Sons Ltd, (1957) 94 item 307; enveloped with others.


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Lockhart, John Gibson

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Jul 1833

Location: BC MS 19c Southey

Note: Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd., (1957). 94 item 306; enveloped with others. Unpublished?


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: May, John

Letters: 1

Date(s): 23 May 1801

Location: BC MS 19c Southey. Wm. Dawson & Sons (1957), 94 item 304; enveloped with others

Note: Published in Warter's Selection vol.1.


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Moxon, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 Jul 1831

Location: BC MS 19c Southey. Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd. (1957), 94 item 309; enveloped with others

Note: n.p.


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Aug 1829

Location: BC MS 19c Southey. Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd. (1957), 94 item 308; enveloped with others

Note: n.p.?


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Sender: Scott, Sir Walter

Recipient: Southey, Robert

Letters: 4

Date(s): 10 Sep [1809?] - 2 May 1817

Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT

Note: 1) Met old follower of Rob Roy by Loch Lomond; encloses [missing] note from George Ellis; political shibboleths are for knaves and fools, and Ellis and Canning should know Southey's views (a pension for Southey is in view); plans for the Morte d'Arthur; Southey's missionary article; Spain. Lord Valenica, Bruce; article on Miss Edgeworth. 2) Introduces the younger Ballantyne; plan of a "British Librarian"; offer to accompany Southey to Edinburgh; Wordsworth. 3) Commends family of Henry Mackenzie, author, visiting the Lakes; Wordsworth's "Excursion" and "White Doe"; the Duc d'Enghien and Captain Wright. 4) In 2 pieces (6 pages). Apologies for not writing; sympathy over Waterloo pilgrimage; has been ill and suffered severe treatment; Southey's controversy with William Smith; Smith's character; thanks for continuation of history of Brazil; work for the poor; Scott of Lincton; impoverished versifier; Gilmour's play is unlikely to get acted; Duke of Buccleuch also anit-Smith. Forwarded (by
N.L. Lockhart ?) from Keswick to 15 Queen Ann Street, Cavendish Square, London. Postmarked 7 May. The original letters (1-3) with typescript copies, bound in the above order preceded by Southey portrait "London, bei Black & Armstrong" after Finden. Letter 4 with seal, loose in envelope. Letters published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington (1932).


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Sender: Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt

Recipient: Southey, Robert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Jan 1829

Location: BC Misc letters (bound): CHANTREY, vol.1

Note: 1p. 4to. Bound in one of two volumes lettered "A Collection of Autograph Letters from Sir Francis Chantrey". The original letters, mounted and bound, with typed copies and a frontispiece portrait.


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Ragg, Thomas

Letters: 1

Date(s): 28 Dec 1835

Location: BC Egerton Leigh: Literature, Science, Art & Music Autographs,

p.81


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Miss Laurence

Letters: 1

Date(s): 16 July 1808

Location: BC MS 19c Southey


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Morgan, J

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 Jul 1812

Location: BC MS 19c Southey


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Unknown

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Nov 1825

Location: BC MS 19c Southey

Note: Addressed to 'My dear Sir'.


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Sender: Southey, Robert

Recipient: Pringle, Thomas

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 May 1828

Location: BC Misc letters, PRI (Pringle album)