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Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Southey
Physical description
106 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Access to materials
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Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, an undated commonplace book, and an undated notebook.

Biographical/historical information

Robert Southey was the poet laureate of England from 1813-1843, an essayist, and an early leader of the "Lake School" of radical poets.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, an undated commonplace book, and an undated notebook. The manuscripts consist of holograph poems and portions of novels. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from [1794] to 1839, to Joseph Cottle, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Moxon, Edith Fricker Southey, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from ca. 1816 to 1959, between various correspondents including Richard Brudenell Exton, Charles Southey, W. H. Somerton, Caroline Southey, Lord Ashley, earl of Shaftesbury, and others. There are letters to Southey from Joanna Baillie, George Howland Beaumont, George Canning, A. Anderson Feldborg, Samuel Carter Hall, Benjamin Robert Haydon, William Hayley, Robert Sheldon MacKenzie, Lord Ashley, earl of Shaftesbury, Caroline Bowles Southey, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and others, dating from [1798] to 1839.

The Robert Southey collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was previously owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Former owners also include Roderick Terry, Frank Fletcher, Katharine Southey, and Caroline Bowles.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Alternative form available

74 A.L.S. to various correspondents, chiefly to Joseph Cottle, his brother Henry Herbert Southey and to literary friends : 1797-1839. Available on microfilm as part of Robert Southey collection of papers; service copy classmark: *Z-10373