Page1 |
Previous | 1 of 3 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
|
This page
All
Subset |
Loading content ...
Albaro. Monday 11th. Novr. 1822.
My dear Byron,
The whole of this business is very clear. Murray is very
much enraged; the Tories are equally so at your having taken
so decided a part against them; and you, suffer me to say,
did not do one of the best or wisest things in the world in
making, at the same time, or at any other time, so much & so
little of that egregious knave.[1] As to myself, I mitigated
your epistolary carbonadoes /against/ of him, it seems, to
pretty purpose; & certainly have to regret that you
condescended to defend your connexion with us to such a
fellow. Your Greek apothegm is indeed valuable with regard
to men of his kind, though I hold it to be "naught" for all
the rest. My "wife & six small"[2] come rather hard upon me
in /this/ the business,--but a little reflection takes the
heat out of my cheeks: & as /y/ to your "proser", God
knows I /nev/ should never think it worth a savager answer
than to lay hold of one of my puns, & say you're a
"worser." The world would not be very likely to believe
either of us. In short, I confess myself inclined on this
occasion, as I have been on some others, to wish that you
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Leigh Hunt letter to George Byron, November 11, 1822 |
| Creator |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 |
| Date Original | 1822-11-11 |
| Description | Concerning the anger of Murray and the Tories; blames Byron for "making...so much and so little of that egregious knave", and regrets "that you condescended to defend your connexion with us to such a fellow", perhaps Murray, to whom Byron had written on Oct. 9, 1822. Believes that Byron's lordship and bardship "sometimes get mightily at variance"; is certain that the "Illiberals" wish that they could sow discord between them; will show Byron what he writes to Henry, i.e. John Hunt's son. |
| Note | In Mary Shelley's autograph. |
| Personal Name Subject |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 Murray, John, 1778-1843 Hunt, Henry |
| Geographic Subject |
Italy -- Albaro |
| 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 H94by |
| 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) | 11.7 |
| Number of Pages | 3 + 1 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 | 2008-04-29 |
| Transcript |
Albaro. Monday 11th. Novr. 1822 . My dear Byron , The whole of this business is very clear. Murray is very much enraged; the Tories are equally so at your having taken so decided a part against them; and you, suffer me to say, did not do one of the best or wisest things in the world in making, at the same time, or at any other time, so much & so little of that egregious knave.[1] As to myself, I mitigated your epistolary carbonadoes /against/ of him, it seems, to pretty purpose; & certainly have to regret that you condescended to defend your connexion with us to such a fellow. Your Greek apothegm is indeed valuable with regard to men of his kind, though I hold it to be "naught" for all the rest. My "wife & six small"[2] come rather hard upon me in /this/ the business,--but a little reflection takes the heat out of my cheeks: & as /y/ to your "proser", God knows I /nev/ should never think it worth a savager answer than to lay hold of one of my puns, & say you're a "worser." The world would not be very likely to believe either of us. In short, I confess myself inclined on this occasion, as I have been on some others, to wish that you [Page Break] were only a fine writer & a poet, & not a Lord besides: not because I am none, but because your Lordship & your Bardship sometimes get mightily at variance, & do not know well how to get out of it. I am sure however, after all, that you wish me to think you mean kindly & respectfully to me at bottom. I am sure also that the Illiberals wish very much to the contrary, & that they could sow discord between us. I should like to disappoint them on that account I own; but still more for better reasons, both with regard to your own good wishes & the good of the times; but I shall make no end, if I go on to say half what I feel. Suffice it to say, that no thing more need be said on the subject, if it can /be/ possibly be helped, or unless you yourself shall think fit to say any thing. I will write to Henry by return of post,[3] & shew you, as usual what I write; & /whe/ I hope when you see the letter, frank as it will be, that it will [Page Break] be to you a proof of the sincerity with which I return you/r/ your kind epithet & sign myself affectionately yours Leigh Hunt |
| Transcript Notes |
1. John Murray . 2. Thornton, John, Mary Florimel, Swinburne, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and James Henry Sylvan Leigh Hunt . 3. See two letters to Henry Leigh Hunt dated November 14, 1822. |
| 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 |
| Letter Published In |
Luther A. Brewer, ed. My Leigh Hunt Library, the Holograph Letters. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1938, p.122; Luther A. Brewer. The Joys and Sorrows of a Book Collector. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately Printed: for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1928, p.18-20; Hunter Pell McCartney, ed. "The Letters of Leigh Hunt in the Luther A. Brewer Collection: 1816-1825." Diss. University of Pennsylvania, 1958, p.110-17. |
Description
Tags
Comments
Post a Comment for Page1
