Robert Southey (1774-1843) was a poet, journalist and biographer. His brother, Henry Herbert Southey (1783-1865), was a physician. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Letters from Robert Southey to his brother Henry. The letters to his brother printed in J.W. Warter, Selections from the letters of Robert Southey (London, 1856) are not in this collection.

The papers were bought at Sotheby's in 1927 and given to the Library by the Friends of the Bodleian.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 38982-4.

See also Correspondence between Robert Southey and Grosvenor Charles Bedford.

Southey | Henry Herbert | 1783-1865 | Physician

Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | Poet, Journalist, and Biographer