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4 Upper Cheyne Row
Saturday, Sept. 27.
Dear Sir,
I am much obliged to you for the regret expressed in your letter. The epistle of the "querulous Latinist" (as you happily call him) I have unfortunately burnt. I receive a great many letters which I am obliged to get rid of in like manner, and I did not feel called upon to make an exception in favour of my irritable verbal friend; especially as persons of his overbearing sort generally delight themselves with keeping copies. He is some teacher of Latin, angry at my preferring Greek. He makes a remark now and then, on some nicety of syllable, not unworthy of attention; be generally speaking, his criticism is what they call in Parliament "frivolous and vexatious." He finds grave fault with me for not taking care to say that [ ? ][1] frog saw his ox
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Leigh Hunt letter to George Dubourg, September 27, 1830s |
| Creator |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 |
| Date Original | 1830-09-27/1839-09-27 |
| Description | Concerning a letter of criticism. |
| Personal Name Subject |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Dubourg, George, 1799-1882 |
| Chronological Subject |
1830-1840 |
| 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 H94du |
| 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) | 20.2 |
| Width (cm) | 12.4 |
| Number of Pages | 2 + 4 blank |
| 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 | 2008-04-22 |
| Transcript |
4 Upper Cheyne Row Saturday, Sept. 27. Dear Sir , I am much obliged to you for the regret expressed in your letter. The epistle of the “querulous Latinist” (as you happily call him) I have unfortunately burnt. I receive a great many letters which I am obliged to get rid of in like manner, and I did not feel called upon to make an exception in favour of my irritable verbal friend; especially as persons of his overbearing sort generally delight themselves with keeping copies. He is some teacher of Latin, angry at my preferring Greek. He makes a remark now and then, on some nicety of syllable, not unworthy of attention; be generally speaking, his criticism is what they call in Parliament “frivolous and vexatious.” He finds grave fault with me for not taking care to say that [ ? ][1] frog saw his ox [page break] “in a meadow”! – as if frogs ever saw oxen any where else, or in Regent Street . Ever truly yours , Leigh Hunt P.S. What our Latinist however says about giving a learned colour to the magazine is, I think, worthy of consideration; I mean, of course, as a variety. It is as well to hit the taste of all large classes of people; and the scholars in England are a numerous body . To G. Dubourg Esquire |
| Transcript Notes | 1. “The Ox and the Frog” is one of Aesop’s Fables. Hunt references Aesop’s frog and the frogs in Homer in “A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s Choice.” |
| Transcript By | Blair, Erica |
| Transcript Location | University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. |
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| Title | Page1 |
| Relation - Is Part Of | Leigh Hunt letter to George Dubourg, Sept. 27, 1830s |
| Digital Collection | Leigh Hunt Letters |
| File Name | h94du_Page1.jpg |
| Transcript | 4 Upper Cheyne Row Saturday, Sept. 27. Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for the regret expressed in your letter. The epistle of the "querulous Latinist" (as you happily call him) I have unfortunately burnt. I receive a great many letters which I am obliged to get rid of in like manner, and I did not feel called upon to make an exception in favour of my irritable verbal friend; especially as persons of his overbearing sort generally delight themselves with keeping copies. He is some teacher of Latin, angry at my preferring Greek. He makes a remark now and then, on some nicety of syllable, not unworthy of attention; be generally speaking, his criticism is what they call in Parliament "frivolous and vexatious." He finds grave fault with me for not taking care to say that [ ? ][1] frog saw his ox |
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