Leigh Hunt letter to Edmund Ollier, February 2, 1858

              Feb. 2d, 1858  

My dear Edmund,  

I had a sort of Monday hope that I should have the pleasure of seeing you last evening; and this hope was rendered an anxiety, when I received the Life of Shelley, and found unfortunately how impossible it would be for me to keep my promise with Mr. Pigott as to reviewing it. I am too much mixed up with it myself, and have too many personal objections to make to it; 
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you to write the review, I think I could help you to do it with kindly objection to the biographer, pain to nobody, and partiality to none but my Friend.   

Thanks again, and ever more for your beautiful article on my /---/ play. I have just received admiring words about it (i.e. the article) in a letter from Mr. Craik, which I will shew you. [1]   

With great sighs, and old patience, and much comfort from said play & the public,  
your affectionate /father/ friend,  
Leigh Hunt.   

P.S. I had written "father" here instead of "friend," meaning when I signed, to bid your father be jolly and let me hear good news of him when I see you. The green leaves are in prospect now, and he must tropicalize in-doors till then.