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Leigh Hunt letter to John Taaffe, December 5, 1822

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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to John Taaffe, December 5, 1822
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1822-12-05
Description	Concerning his many cares and much writing as reasons for not answering Taaffe's letter; Marianne's health impaired by winter climate in Genoa, and their plan to move to Florence the following year; Hunt's brief notice of Taaffe's Comment on the Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri in the Liberal, and the impossibility of rendering such a work popular.
Note	Imperfect: Hunt's signature and part of address lacking. Endorsement on page three: From Leigh Hunt. The signature cut away to give to Miss Grady.
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Taaffe, John, 1787-1862 Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857 Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Geographic Subject	Italy -- Genoa
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 H94t
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)	21.6
Width (cm)	12.9
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	2008-07-21
Transcript	Genoa--Dec. 5. 1822 Dear Sir , I beg your pardon very sincerely, as I am sure I ought, for having so long delayed answering your letter; but I have just sent off all the materials for the 2d. Number of the Liberal, & the fact is, I have had so much writing to do, & so many other cares to look after, that when I earn a little repose vi et armis, I am very apt to be gathered into the bosom of the vis inertia. We are all pretty well here, except my wife, though she is much better altogether than when in England. We do not like the winter for her in this climate, & would willingly get out of it again if we could, but we are compelled to wait till summer time, after which she shall certainly not pass another winter higher up than Tuscany. We think, before this [Page Break] time next year, of being your neighbors in Florence, moving also occasionally, as you do, to Pisa-- All the ladies, & Lord Byron, send you their compliments. The best answer I can make to the rest of your letter, is to say, that you will shortly receive the first number of the Liberal, which contains a brief notice of your work, in a note upon an article about Pisa. It should have been longer, had I possessed longer time or better health. Sincerer it cannot be. But there will be a longer one by & by, with an extract or two. I must again suggest to you however, that it is not possible even for the merits of such a work, much less for all the criticism in the world, to render it popular, in the common acceptation of that word. Poets themselves, of an abstract & highly poetical character, like Dante, Spenser, & others, are not popular, though they have the best kind [Page Break] of fame, & the best & fondest kind of readers. Judge what the case must be with one of their commentators. To be popular, a man must either be a writer of epics or other stories, or humourous, or fall in with some obvious fashion or party of the day. The rest is all in the retirements & sacred places of literature.-- Believe me, dear Sir , Very truly yours , [Leigh Hunt] [Page Break] Al Signore Il Signor John Taafe [sic] , Gentiluomo Inglese , Posta , Pisa.
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	Genoa--Dec. 5. 1822 Dear Sir, I beg your pardon very sincerely, as I am sure I ought, for having so long delayed answering your letter; but I have just sent off all the materials for the 2d. Number of the Liberal, & the fact is, I have had so much writing to do, & so many other cares to look after, that when I earn a little repose vi et armis, I am very apt to be gathered into the bosom of the vis inertia. We are all pretty well here, except my wife, though she is much better altogether than when in England. We do not like the winter for her in this climate, & would willingly get out of it again if we could, but we are compelled to wait till summer time, after which she shall certainly not pass another winter higher up than Tuscany. We think, before this

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