ABSTRACT
Entry in Shaftesbury’s diary, reprinted from E. Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (3 vols, 1886), i, p. 262. A letter from Shaftesbury to Southey in 1829 marked the beginning of a friendship which lasted until Southey’s death. Southey’s writings exercised a considerable influence on Shaftesbury.
