Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer

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Surname:	Southey
Forenames:	Robert
Gender:	Male
Date:	1774-1843
Biography:	ODNB link for Southey, Robert (1774-1843) Poet Journalist Biographer
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P148070 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26762 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Southey

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp, literary MSS and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 28096, 30927, 47883-92, 49529; M/621; RP202, 254, 487, 1222, 2544, 4533(ii)	NRA 20959 See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
2	corresp (1418 items) and papers incl notebooks and literary MSS	Huntington Library		See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
3	1791-1840: misc corresp and papers	Duke University: William R Perkins Library		See Guide, 1980, p532
4	1792-1835: corresp and papers incl commonplace books, literary MSS	Harvard University: Houghton Library	MS Eng 265	NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
5	1799-1884: corresp, literary MSS and papers	University of Rochester: Rush Rhees Library		See NUC MS 76-1362
6	1797-1836: corresp and papers	McGill University Archives		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
7	1801, 1838: diaries in Portugal and France, corresp and misc papers	Bristol Reference Library		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
8	corresp and literary MSS	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng misc e 21-22, 114, poet e 10-11, 86; MSS Autogr b 7, c 24	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9	1801-33: letters (6) and notes	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1957
10	letters (13), notes and literary MS	University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1981-82
11	literary MSS	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
12	literary MSS	Chetham's Library	MUN.A.4.1-4	NRA 17002 Chetham's L See Handlist of MSS p34
13	literary MSS and papers	Saffron Walden Museum		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
14	MS of Life of George Fox	Religious Society of Friends Library	MS Box W4/3	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
15	corresp and notebooks (2)	Wordsworth Trust		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
16	1833-37: letters (105) to his publisher rel to his Life of Cowper	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See HMC visit, JRS 1992
17	MS of All for love or a sinner well saved	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	d3	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
18	holograph MS of The Book of The Church Vindicated	London University: Senate House Library	SL V 28 SL V 29
19	corresp and papers rel to collected by Bertram Davis	University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives		See Union List of MSS in Canadian Reps, 1981-2 suppl, p125
20	MS of Thalaba the Destroyer	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 1487A	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
21	1819: journal	Institution of Civil Engineers		NRA 16921 Civil Engineers
22	corresp, literary MSS and papers	Keswick Museum and Art Gallery		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
23	MSS of two reviews	The King's School, Canterbury	WALPOLE	NRA 15260
24	1793-1831: letters to his brother, Thomas Southey	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 30927
25	1798-1839: letters (3 vols) to HH Southey	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Don d 3-5
26	1833-37: letters (102) to Baldwin & Cradock	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
27	1792-1838: corresp, mainly with Grosvenor Bedford; other MSS	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng lett c 22-27, d 47-57
28	1814-39: letters (62), mostly to Anna Eliza Bray (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	MS Facs 615	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
29	1815-36: letters to Sir John Taylor Coleridge	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 47553	NRA 20966
30	letters to Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Victoria University Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
31	letters to James Crossley	Manchester Archives and Local Studies		See Manchester Review, spring/summer 1967
32	1799-1813: letters to Charles Danvers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 30928
33	1801-24: letters to Charles Danvers and Caroline Bowles (copies)	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng poet e 86	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
34	1820-37: corresp (22 items) with Isaac D'Israeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
35	1817-28: letters to Francis Douce	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Douce d 23, 26	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
36	1811-30: letters (18) to Robert Gooch	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Don d 86
37	1802-20: letters to Richard Heber	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett d 215	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
38	1821-37: letters (11) to David Laing	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	La IV 3
39	1808-39: letters (48) and literary MSS sent to WS Landor	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Forster Collection 48 D 32	NRA 38887 Forster See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
40	1796-1839: letters to Nicholas Lightfoot (102 leaves)	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett b 4, c 453, d 110	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
41	letters to Edward Locker	Huntington Library		See NRA 12288 Appendix II
42	1825-38: letters to JG Lockhart	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.923	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
43	1819-34: letters to Lord Lonsdale	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D/Lons/L1/2/60	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
44	1805-1814: letters (16) to John May	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1988; Brotherton Collection Review 1985-6, p21
45	1797-1838: letters (173) to John May	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Microfilm: M/596
46	1808-37: letters (45) to General William Peachy	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 28603
47	letters (742) to John Rickman	Huntington Library		See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
48	1807-38: letters to Henry Crabb Robinson and others	Dr Williams's Library	M 318; Crabb Robinson MSS	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
49	1806-32: corresp with Sir Walter Scott	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 853, 3875-3918	See Catalogue of MSS, vols i-ii, 1938, 1966
50	1805-38: letters (46) to Humphrey Senhouse	University of Rochester: Rush Rhees Library		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
51	1805-38: letters (46) to Humphrey Senhouse (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP719	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
52	corresp with John Spedding	Mirehouse		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
53	1831-37: letters to Lord Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/C359	NRA 25095
54	1799-1838: letters (13) and poems to Daniel Stuart	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 34046	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
55	1831-38: letters (13) to Charles Swain	Manchester Archives and Local Studies	Swain 21-35	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
56	letters to John Swinton	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS200	NRA 10561
57	corresp with John Taylor	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library		See Osborn collection: Bulletin of John Rylands L, vol 49, no 22
58	1811-26: corresp with Joseph Blanco White	University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives	Rathbone Papers	NRA 7187 Rathbone
59	1811-27: letters from Joseph Blanco White	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS.Eng.lett.d.74 ff.84-101	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
60	1796-c1839: corresp with CW Wynn	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MSS 4811-4815	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
61	corresp (17 items) and literary MSS	Boston Public Library		NRA 11046 Boston Library
62	letters and literary MSS	Cowper Memorial Library		See Handlist of MSS in the Cooper and Newton Museum
63	c1796-1839: corresp	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Handlist of MSS, indexes to vols 2 and 3
64	1801-39: letters (18)	Unknown location		NRA 12712 Pottinger
65	1804-39: letters (16)	Cambridge University: Newnham College Library	Harold Young Papers 382	See ANL Munby, Cambridge College Libraries, p30
66	letters in his "Life of Nelson"	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Museums and Galleries Commission Report 1986-87, p65
67	corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 1817, 2257, 2528-29	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
68	1824-35: letters (18)	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	MAM PLP 98 8 6-22	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
69	1822-50: Southey family letters	Hampshire Archives	2M69
70	papers	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
71	papers	Cornell University Libraries		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
72	papers	The Morgan Library		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
73	papers	Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
74	1824-27: (copies) letters, mainly to his son	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 202
75	c1818: (copies) notebook rel to his life of George Fox	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 254
76	1830-1843: letters to members of the Coleridge family	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add. 86847