2 pages (1 sheet), plus address and postmark. Addressed to Mr. Cottle in High Street, Bristol. Southey requests some engravings of his that Cottle has; discusses travels; future work with Cottle; personal affairs; a ghost story. Dating: based on a pencil mark for "Febr 1797"; another pencil marking in the top left corner of the first page states "Remarkable!"

Also in the folder is a print of Southey "from a drawing by Hancock (1796) in the possession of Mr. Cottle."