ABSTRACT
Extract from a letter to William Smith Williams. Reprinted from The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, ed. T. J. Wise andj. A. Symington (4 vols, Oxford, 1932), iii, pp. 98–9. Charlotte Brontë had recommended Southey’s poetry— ‘the greater part at least of his, some is certainly exceptionable’— in a letter to Ellen Nussey, 4 july 1834. During the winter of 1836/7 she corresponded briefly with Southey when she solicited his opinion of some of her poems.
