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Leigh Hunt letter to T. A. Phipps, December 19, 1826

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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to T. A. Phipps, December 19, 1826
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1826-12-19
Description	Concerning thanks for the volume and feeling towards England.
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Phipps, T. A.
Geographic Subject	England -- London -- Camden -- Highgate
Chronological Subject	1820-1830
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Correspondence
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection
Collection Guide	http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/resources/Brewer-LeighHunt.html
Location	MsL H94phi
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. This letter is owned by The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department, and is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the Special Collections Department.
Contact Information	Contact The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Height (cm)	21.1
Width (cm)	18.3
Number of Pages	2
Number of Sheets of Paper	1
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Archival tiff image available.
Date Digital	2008-04-16
Transcript	T.A. Phipps Esqre . Highgate--Dec. 19. 1826. My dear Sir , Many thanks for the coming volumes, and especially for the pleasant recollections you have brought up of old times. I hope when I get a little richer (as it is high time for me to think of doing, with so many little memorandums to that effect about me) that I shall prevail upon you to renew some of those recollections over a bottle; though I am sorry I cannot reckon at present upon the company of the third party[1] you speak of, a dispute upon property having sprung up between us, which I have in vain endeavoured to make a friendly & fraternal dispute, /---/ instead of adding to the chilling chagrins which exist quite abundantly enough in this beloved English country of ours. You see I have lost a little of my patriotism, since I was abroad,--not indeed for my green fields, for which I retain all my cockney admiration, & which I am content to purchase at the old price of rains & fogs. I love the very mud of an English gutter, better than [Page Break] all the vineyards of Italy; because it makes me feel that I am at home again, among old friends & habits. But I confess, that the sight of so many sullen, unenjoying faces, which I met on my return to England, made me doubt more than ever whether the inhabitants were as wise, & as much above the other nations of the world, as they suppose themselves; & the more I see, the more I doubt. Such a face as Mrs. Mathews's[2] is a god-send, and I wonder how I happened not to know it again; but my near-sighted eyes are always getting me into these scrapes. Mrs. Phipps I remember as well, as if I had been in company with her last week; & it would have highly gratified me to recognize her countenance. Pray tell her how much I am obliged by her kind memory . You were quite right about the volumes.-- I have not seen those earlier papers of the News, now, for /th/ nearly these twenty years & shall be curious to see how many idle things my ingenious ignorance led me to say . Yours, my dear Sir, very sincerely , Leigh Hunt.
Transcript Notes	1. John Hunt, LH's brother, with whom LH was disputing a share of The Examiner. 2. Mrs. Mathews-- Lucia Elizabeth or Elizabetta, also known as Madame Vestris.
Transcript By	Cheney, David R. (David Raymond), 1922-2006
Transcript Location	Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections: http://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/index.html

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Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
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Transcript	T.A. Phipps Esqre. Highgate--Dec. 19. 1826. My dear Sir, Many thanks for the coming volumes, and especially for the pleasant recollections you have brought up of old times. I hope when I get a little richer (as it is high time for me to think of doing, with so many little memorandums to that effect about me) that I shall prevail upon you to renew some of those recollections over a bottle; though I am sorry I cannot reckon at present upon the company of the third party[1] you speak of, a dispute upon property having sprung up between us, which I have in vain endeavoured to make a friendly & fraternal dispute, /---/ instead of adding to the chilling chagrins which exist quite abundantly enough in this beloved English country of ours. You see I have lost a little of my patriotism, since I was abroad,--not indeed for my green fields, for which I retain all my cockney admiration, & which I am content to purchase at the old price of rains & fogs. I love the very mud of an English gutter, better than

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