The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey
Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 7 January 1836
“The best thing I can wish for myself, on the
commencement of a new year (among those things which ‘stand to
feasible’) is, that it may not pass away without your making a visit to
Keswick. Other hope for the year I have none, and not much (to confess the
truth) of this. Time, however, passes rapidly enough; and good part of it, by
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in a sort of world of my own, wherein
I seem abstracted from every thing except what occupies my immediate attention.
The most painful seasons are, when I lie down at night, and when I awake in the
morning. But my health continues good, and my spirits better than I could
possibly have expected, had our present circumstances been foreseen. . . . . It
is remarkable that, of all employments at this time, the Life of Cowper
should be that on which I am engaged. Enough of this. God bless you!
Grosvenor Charles Bedford (1773-1839)
The son of Horace Walpole's correspondent Charles Bedford; he was auditor of the
Exchequer and a friend of Robert Southey who contributed to several of Southey's
publications.
