Southey Pays To Repair His Home, Greta Hall

ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843). Southey was an English poet from the Romantic School. He was the Poet Laureate for thirty years. He wrote a well-known biography of Horatio Nelson and his best-known poems include Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop, After Blenheim and Cataract of Lodore.ALS. 1pg. 7 x 8 . June 3, 1819. Keswick. A scarce autograph letter signed Robert Southey to an unidentified correspondent: The annuities shall be duly discharged. I have paid 1-5-3 for repairing the roof, & rebuilding a chimney shaken by the storms in January, & also the sum of 2.17.3 for a new pump, the old one being so rotten as to be no longer serviceable. The residue, accounting to 3.7.6 shall be sent by the Carrier, if no better opportunity of conveying it should occur. Greta Hall was Southeys home. The letter is in very good condition with mailing folds and it is tipped to a larger sheet. The writing is dark.