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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to unknown recipient, November 28
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1828-11-28
Description	Concerning an Italian print of a scene in Boccaccio's Decameron that Hunt will obtain for him; describing places in Italy where Hunt lived; mentioning his imprisonment.
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Geographic Subject	England -- London -- Kensington and Chelsea -- Kensington
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 H94 November
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)	18
Width (cm)	11.3
Number of Pages	4 + 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	2008-07-14
Transcript	Kensington-Nov. 28. [1828][1] My dear Sir , I fear you must have been thinking me strangely inattentive; but I have really not been so. I have only been delayed by the daily expectation of being able to send you an Italian print of the Fiesolan scene in the Decameron; & I still hope to do so at the beginning of the coming week; but I could not longer forbear writing. The scene presents the "Valley of Ladies" as it existed in Boccaccio's [Page Break] time, & the convent of the Doccia, as it still exists: "My daily walk & ancient neighbourhood." It makes a beautiful picture; & if you /for/ could possibly have added it to your illustrations, I should have been greatly pleased & proud. In the course of a few days you could be sure of having it, for I know where to procure it in case of necessity, should the quarter fail me from which I had been every day expecting it. Meantime I send you some account of the place, which I wrote (too crudely) when in Italy. But pray understand, that I know all about printers, & hurries, & the "getting out" of books; so that your inability to do anything of the sort would not at all surprise me. The villa Gherardi, as you observe, is not mentioned in the Decameron; but the Valley of Ladies is (at the close of Book the Sixth); and the /critics/ commentators are agreed, that it is identical with the spot in question, & thus points out the neighbouring villa for the house that was "close by." I lived at Maiano (the village at this place) during the greater part or the time that I was in the Florentine district, which was nearly three years. When I was in Florence itself, I resided, first, in the "Street of Beautiful Ladies" (Via delle Belle Donna)-there's a name for you!-and afterwards in the square of Santa Croce, at the corner house next to the famous church of that name, as you look fronting it. The church is the Pantheon or Westminster Abbey of Tuscany; and thus I had the pleasure every night of sleeping next to the sacred dust of Galileo, Michael Angelo, Alfieri &c. You will perhaps have found, by this time, an account of what sent me to prison, at p. 235, Vol. II. of the "Byron & his Contemporaries."- What a trouble these things must be giving you! Pray cut it short in whatever way best suits you, as far as it regards myself; for though proud of the interest you take in me, I can sympathize too closely with an author when he is driven for time. Very sincerely yours, Leigh Hunt. [Page Break - Continued on Page 1] P. S. I don't know "Festus"; but I have seen enough of his book to know that he is worthy of Tennison's admiration. Mrs. Hunt & all of us beg kindest remembrances. The most favourite of my haunts during life have been Hampstead and Ashted Park (near Epsom) and the Fiesolan hills.
Transcript Notes	1. Date: 1828 was the date of publication of "Lord Byron".
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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Transcript	Kensington—Nov. 28. My dear Sir, I fear you must have been thinking me strangely inattentive; but I have really not been so. I have only been delayed by the daily expectation of being able to send you an Italian print of the Fiesolan scene in the Decameron; & I still hope to do so at the beginning of the coming week; but I could not longer forbear writing. The scene presents the "Valley of Ladies" as it existed in Boccaccio's [Continued at top of page from Page 4] P. S. I don't know "Festus"; but I have seen enough of his book to know that he is worthy of Tennison's admiration. Mrs. Hunt & all of us beg kindest remembrances. The most favourite of my haunts during life have been Hampstead and Ashted Park (near Epsom) and the Fiesolan hills.

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