The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Cuthbert Southey   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

His principal source of income latterly, as the reader has seen, had been derived from the Edin burgh Annual Register; but this from the beginning had been a losing concern, though started with the most sanguine anticipations of success. Indeed, it appears, from the Life of Sir W. Scott (vol. Iv. P. That the actual loss upon it had never been less than 10001. Per annum, and it was therefore not to be wondered at that some considerable irregu larities occurred in the publisher's payments, and that my father now found it prudent to declare his intention of withdrawing from it when the current volume should be concluded, having already suffered much inconvenience and some embarrassment from this cause.