“You will be glad to hear that we arrived safely this
day, after a less uncomfortable journey than
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might have
been apprehended from the season of the year. We found all well, God be
thanked, and Edith, who complained a
little the first day, got better daily as we drew nearer home. She complains of
a headache now; but that is the natural effect of over-excitement, on seeing
her brother and sisters and her cousin, and displaying the treasures which we
have brought for them. We reached Wordsworth’s yesterday, about seven o’clock. Three
hours more would have brought us home, but I preferred passing the night at his
house, for had we proceeded, we should have found the children in bed; and a
return home, under fortunate circumstances, has something of the character of a
triumph, and requires daylight. Never, I believe, was there seen a happier
household than this when the chaise drew up to the door. I find so many letters
to answer, that to-morrow will be fully employed in clearing them off.
“God bless you, my dear friend!
Yours most affectionately,
Robert Southey.”
Edith Southey [née Fricker] (1774-1837)
The daughter of Stephen Fricker, she was the first wife of Robert Southey and the mother
of his children; they married in secret in 1795.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
With Coleridge, author of Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth
survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
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