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Mount Trenchard
Shanagolden
July 19th 1815.
Sir
Though personally unknown to you, my feelings towards you have long been those of an old acquaintance[.] A distinguished public writer has a thousand friends, in a thousand unexpected quarters, and in some cases, among which perhaps the present may be numbered, they are as unwelcome as they are unexpected. However this may be, I take the liberty of offering the enclosed poem to you, as a testimony of the great delight I have
Leigh Hunt Esqre.
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Aubrey de Vere letter to Leigh Hunt, July 19, 1815 |
| Creator |
De Vere, Aubrey, Sir, 1788-1846 |
| Date Original | 1815-07-19 |
| Description | Concerning his enclosed poem, which he hopes Hunt will mention in the Examiner; his familiarity with Hunt's works, including "Feast of Apollo" and "Descent of Liberty". |
| Note | Letter signed "Aubrey de Vere Hunt." |
| Personal Name Subject |
De Vere, Aubrey, Sir, 1788-1846 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 |
| Geographic Subject | Ireland -- Limerick |
| Chronological Subject |
1810-1820 |
| 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 | Gates MsL D48h |
| 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) | 19.0 |
| Width (cm) | 11.7 |
| 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 | 2008-09-10 |
| Transcript |
Mount Trenchard Shanagolden July 19th 1815. Sir Though personally unknown to you, my feelings towards you have long been those of an old acquaintance[.] A distinguished public writer has a thousand friends, in a thousand unexpected quarters, and in some cases, among which perhaps the present may be numbered, they are as unwelcome as they are unexpected. However this may be, I take the liberty of offering the enclosed poem to you, as a testimony of the great delight I have Leigh Hunt Esqre. [page break] received from your writings[.] I trust you will peruse with indulgence a production that I am conscious has every need of yr. good nature. I have availed myself of my father's acquaintance with you to request he will transmit this. From him I early had the pleasure of carrying about with me a volume of your poems, published when you were a youth. I brought them uninjured from Harrow to this country, &. have them now by me, the va |
| Transcript Notes |
Thousands of letters "To the Editor: must have reached Hunt in the course of his long journalistic career. This one from Ireland is not of the usual run. Hunt was acquainted with his correspondent's father (Sir Vere Hunt, Bart., who appears on the subscription list of Juvenilia); many years later he would come to know his son, the poet Aubrey Thomas de Vere. Sir Vere was born about 1760; his grandson lived until 1902. It is seldom that one can record a literary friendship extending through three generations of the same family . In the Examiner of July 30, 1815, p. 491, Hunt printed the three stanzas submitted by his namesake. The date was exactly six weeks after Waterloo : Farewell to the Land, where the gloom of my glory Arose and o'ershadowed the earth with her name;- She abandons me now,-but the page of her story , The brightest or blackest, is filled with my fame . This probably marks the first appearance in print of a poet whose sonnets |
| Transcript By |
Gates, Eleanor M. |
| Transcript Location |
University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. |
| Letter Published In | Gates, Life. Eleanor M. Gates, ed. Leigh Hunt: A Life in Letters Together With Some Correspondence of William Hazlitt. Essex, CT: Falls River Publications, 1998, p. 61-63; |
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| Title | Page1 |
| Relation - Is Part Of | Aubrey de Vere letter to Leigh Hunt, July 19, 1815 |
| Digital Collection | Leigh Hunt Letters |
| File Name | d48h_Page1.tif |
| Transcript | Mount Trenchard Shanagolden July 19th 1815. Sir Though personally unknown to you, my feelings towards you have long been those of an old acquaintance[.] A distinguished public writer has a thousand friends, in a thousand unexpected quarters, and in some cases, among which perhaps the present may be numbered, they are as unwelcome as they are unexpected. However this may be, I take the liberty of offering the enclosed poem to you, as a testimony of the great delight I have Leigh Hunt Esqre. |
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