细节
ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)
Autograph letter signed ("Robert Southey") to any unnamed gentleman, 1 1/2 pages, 4°, Streatham, Surrey, 23 September 1813.
"With regard to the future fate of the Register my apprehensions coincide with yours. Without wishing in any way to exaggerate the value of what I have written for it, I may say that no person can succeed to the task who is equally prepared for it by the previous knowledge which it requires & that it is hardly to be expected that anyone will again devote himself so entirely to it as I have done. If it would mince the proprietors to repurchase my share, I would carry on the affairs of Spain, being that portion of the history for which I am most exclusively qualified and which has given its chief value to the work: this I would do as long as our armies continue there, at a price proportioned to its relative extent and also the affairs of Spanish America."
Pencil script erased from top left hand corner, adhesive tape repairs along folds, paper discolouration and staining.
Autograph letter signed ("Robert Southey") to any unnamed gentleman, 1 1/2 pages, 4°, Streatham, Surrey, 23 September 1813.
"With regard to the future fate of the Register my apprehensions coincide with yours. Without wishing in any way to exaggerate the value of what I have written for it, I may say that no person can succeed to the task who is equally prepared for it by the previous knowledge which it requires & that it is hardly to be expected that anyone will again devote himself so entirely to it as I have done. If it would mince the proprietors to repurchase my share, I would carry on the affairs of Spain, being that portion of the history for which I am most exclusively qualified and which has given its chief value to the work: this I would do as long as our armies continue there, at a price proportioned to its relative extent and also the affairs of Spanish America."
Pencil script erased from top left hand corner, adhesive tape repairs along folds, paper discolouration and staining.