{"id":13763,"date":"2021-12-12T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/uncategorized\/robert-wilson\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:23:25","slug":"robert-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/the-traveller\/robert-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My dear Friend<a href=\"#_edn1\">a<\/a> \u2013 I send you with this letter the Copie of the Win of Athens <em>which<\/em><a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> you desired \u2012. I dont think it done quite well \u2014 but yet it is good<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> enough for remembering \u2012 the old town and all those you saw there. The letter you send <em>to<\/em><sup>1<\/sup> me previosly of your departure of Vienna touched me indeed very much \u2014 and though I was allways perfectly convinced of your sincere attachement to me, yet there was a certain delicacy in it which proved me that you can be at once a good and very pleasant friend \u2014 I was extremly sorry to hear the lost<sup>2<\/sup> of you <em>pudel<\/em><a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> and yet more dissapointed to see that he was found one day after your departure. \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many <em>evenements<\/em><sup>3<\/sup> which occured \u2012 in respect of the Fate of young C<a href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Szech<a href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> <em>in the short time since you left Vienna<\/em>.<a href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> \u201cEvery<a href=\"#_ftn7\">[7]<\/a> hope of marriage vanished at once of<a href=\"#_ftn8\">[8]<\/a> his gloomy soul &#8211; at I see now to clear &#8211; that the happiness of domestic life is for ever lost<sup>7<\/sup> <em>for<\/em><sup>1<\/sup> me. \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I vant say more, but, that I am quite sure &#8211; that you vould not have done differently in my position \u2014 which you can not know thouroghly. &#8211; it is inpossible. \u2014 I am not very happy \u2012 yet I never will be wretched -. The idea of doing right givs us a sort of consolation which never will fail to sustain us \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am going to leave Vienna in about three weeks \u2012 on purpose of a journey in hongerie and poland \u2012 I shall pass the next Winter here and the next Spring in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Father gets better every day &#8211; but his manner of seeing is so quite different of myn mine, that we cannot agree in so many respects &#8211; which in my present situation cannot be very pleasant of course \u2012 Yet I shall allways behave well and gratefull.<a href=\"#_edn1\">[b]<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Interlining afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Corrected word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> Sz\u00e9chenyi\u2019s underlining with straight line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> Count<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> Sz\u00e9ch\u00e9nyi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> Inserted afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a> One word deleted by Sz\u00e9chenyi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a> One letter deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\"><\/a><a href=\"#_edn1\">[a]<\/a> Robert Wilson was a Scottish physician who spent seven years in East India. On his way home, he met Sz\u00e9chenyi in Athens and they travelled together from there to Naples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_edn1\">[b]<\/a> The notes in the notebook K 247 are undated, but it can be established that they were written in July 1819.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9chenyi to Robert Wilson, Vienna, 31 July 1819. Edited and annotated by Szilvia Czinege. Published in Correspondence of Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9chenyi. Digital edition. Edited by Szilvia Czinege and Zolt\u00e1n F\u00f3nagy. https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/ Abbreviation for further references: SzIL-Digit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear Frienda \u2013 I send you with this letter the Copie of the Win of Athens which[1] you desired \u2012. I dont think it done quite well \u2014 but yet it is good[2] enough for remembering \u2012 the old town and all those you saw there. The letter you send to1 me previosly of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3438,3448],"tags":[3381,3706],"language":[4550],"addressee":[4559],"place_of_writing":[3397],"qualification":[4185],"place_of_keeping":[4560],"place_of_publication":[4561],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-traveller","category-youth","tag-family","tag-meeting","language-english","addressee-robert-wilson-en","place_of_writing-vienna","qualification-draft","place_of_keeping-mta-kik-kt-k-247-31-33-en","place_of_publication-szin-i-845-846-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13766,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"addressee","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/addressee?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"place_of_writing","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place_of_writing?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"qualification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qualification?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"place_of_keeping","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place_of_keeping?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"place_of_publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place_of_publication?post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}