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| Title | Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, February 6, 1806 |
| Creator |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 |
| Date Original | 1806-02-06 |
| Description | Concerning the contrast between town and country; his qualms about standing as a godfather to a friend's child. |
| Note | This letter is located in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. |
| Personal Name Subject |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857 Hunt, Stephen Hunt, John, 1775-1848 Hunter, Ann Kent |
| Geographic Subject | England -- Gainsborough |
| Chronological Subject |
1800-1810 |
| Type (DCMIType) |
Text |
| Type (AAT) |
Correspondence |
| Type (IMT) |
jpeg |
| Digital Collection | Leigh Hunt Letters |
| Contributing Institution | Transcript only. University of Toledo. Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections. |
| Archival Collection | Berg Collection |
| Collection Guide | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/resources/Brewer-LeighHunt.html |
| Location | Berg Collection |
| 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) | unknown |
| Width (cm) | unknown |
| Number of Pages | unknown |
| Number of Sheets of Paper | unknown |
| Digitization Specifications | Transcript only scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 scanner. |
| Date Digital | 2008-09-17 |
| Transcript |
Gainsborough Thursday Feby. [6] 1806[1] Dearest Girl , My journey to Doncaster is deferred till next week, so I sit down to write to you a day earlier than I intended, in order that you may have two letters instead of one this week, to make up for former deficiencies. A very heavy rain last night has made the snow vanish from the fields, which looked delightfully green this morning: I walked out to enjoy the lively air and the universal sunshine, and seated myself with a book on a gateway at the bottom of a little eminence covered with evergreens, a little way from Gainsborough. It seemed the return of Spring: a flock of sheep were grazing before me and cast up every now and then their inquiring visages as much as to say, "What singular being is that so intent upon the mysterious thin substances he is turning over with his paws!"— The crows at intervals came wheeling with long cawings above my head, the herds lowed from the surrounding farms, the windmills whirled to th |
| Transcript Notes |
1. In the letter to Marianne dated Wednesday, February 5, l806, LH speaks of going to Doncaster "tomorrow." In this letter dated Thursday, LH says the journey to Doncaster is deferred. This letter, then, was written on February 6, the day after the letter of Wednesday, February 5 . 2. William Cowper, The Task bk. I, "The Sofa" 1. 749 . 3. The remainder of the MS is not in the Berg Collection and has not been traced. The remaining text is from CLH, I, 22-24 . 4. A melodrama (1756) by John Home . 5. Air with lyrics by R. Crawford . 6. Published in The News July 28, 1805. |
| 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 |
| Letter Published In | Thornton Hunt, ed. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1862, vol. I, 20-24. |
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| Title | page1 |
| Relation - Is Part Of | Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, Feb. 6, 1806 |
| Digital Collection | Leigh Hunt Letters |
| File Name | dummynyplberg_page1.jpg |
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