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Leigh Hunt letter to Benjamin Haydon, January 31, 1816

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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to Benjamin Haydon, January 31, 1816
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1816-01-31
Description	Concerning walks that they used to take together; mentioning that he does not much care for the sonnet Wordsworth addressed to Haydon.
Note	The University of Iowa Libraries card catalog dates this letter 1826-01-31, however the Cheney transcript date of 1816-01-31 is used here.
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846 Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Geographic Subject	England -- London -- Camden -- Hampstead
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 H94hd
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)	23.5
Width (cm)	18.7
Number of Pages	4
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	2008-07-18
Transcript	Hampstead Jan, 31, 1816 . My dear Haydon , I plainly see that you are a nervous man at last as well as myself; but neither you nor your genius will be the worse for that, as long as you turn it to this kindly purpose, /&/ those affectionate /.../ regrets. Believe me I have had them also, & to no small extent; but I have learnt, after infinite battling, to hope, & to resolve to expect, the best in every thing; & you may be assured we shall /have/ again have our old sympathetic enjoyments, of which you have made out so pleasant a list. I seemed, at the minute, to be again walking with you towards Hampstead over the fields, now quoting, now speculating, now giggling, now humming & whistling, now darting up, like larks, into all the skies of fancy & fine abstraction. Come, & let us renew our luxuries in Hampstead. I can procure a very comfortable bed for you at all events at a neighbour's; & so without saying more, shall expect you & the first flowers together . And
Transcript Notes	1. The two sonnets returned to are probably "November 11" published in The Examiner, January 28, 1816 and "September 15" published in The Examiner, February 11, 1816 . 2. The sonnet "To B. R. Haydon" was published in The Examiner, March 31, 1816. In his letter to LH dated December 27, 1815, Haydon had written, "My glory for this year is indeed complete. I have had this morning a sonnet from Wordsworth addressed to me--and one of his most intense and exquisite--beginning 'High is our calling, friend, Creative art/Whether the instrument of words we use,/On pencil Pregnant with etherial hues,)' etc. etc." [S.R. Townshend Mayer. "Leigh Hunt and B.R. Haydon" St. James Magazine 13 (1873), p. 366] 3. The Story of Rimini . 4. LH's sonnet "To Benjamin Robert Haydon" was published in The Examiner, October 20, 1816 . 5. Reference to The Story of Rimini .
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	Hampstead Jan, 31, 1816. My dear Haydon, I plainly see that you are a nervous man at last as well as myself; but neither you nor your genius will be the worse for that, as long as you turn it to this kindly purpose, /&/ those affectionate /.../ regrets. Believe me I have had them also, & to no small extent; but I have learnt, after infinite battling, to hope, & to resolve to expect, the best in every thing; & you may be assured we shall /have/ again have our old sympathetic enjoyments, of which you have made out so pleasant a list. I seemed, at the minute, to be again walking with you towards Hampstead over the fields, now quoting, now speculating, now giggling, now humming & whistling, now darting up, like larks, into all the skies of fancy & fine abstraction. Come, & let us renew our luxuries in Hampstead. I can procure a very comfortable bed for you at all events at a neighbour's; & so without saying more, shall expect you & the first flowers together. And now what shall I say of Wordsworth's two sonnets,[1]-- not excepting the one addressed to you?[2] My disinclination in fact to

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