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Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, September 4, 1806

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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, September 4, 1806
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1806-09-04
Description	Concerning his tenderness and love for her; the careless manner of her last letter and his cautioning her against falling into a "negligent state of affection".
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857
Geographic Subject	England -- London
Chronological Subject	1800-1810
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	bound MsL H94hum2 leaf 28 (one of 34 letters in MsL H94hum2)
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)	18.1
Width (cm)	11
Number of Pages	3 + 1 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	2008-09-17
Transcript	[London] Wednesday [for Thursday] Morning[1] 7 o'clock. [September 4, 1806] You will excuse, my dear girl, this curious slip of paper; Mrs. Hunter is not yet up, and I can neither get at her desk, nor, what is very astonishing, find any larger paper in my own; but as I promised to write to you immediately I received your answer, and as I did not see your letter till my return from The Clandestine Marriage[2] last night, I have sat down to write to you in the best manner I can before breakfast.- What you imagined about Dr. Goldsmith is very true; his host and he became afterwards very close friends.[3] Drury Lane opens on Saturday week & Covent--Garden the Monday following . I am obliged to you for your letter, but I cannot help telling you in the honesty of a sincere affection that I expected a less careless one: you express a regard for your instructor; but do you express that regard in the best way you could? You fill my heart with tenderness by describing
Transcript Notes	1. LH probably wrote by mistake Wednesday instead of Thursday. Wednesday fell on September 3 in 1806, but The Clandestine Marriage, which LH says he saw last night, was performed on September 3, indicating that the letter was written on September 4. Strongly supporting this dating is the fact that the letter was written according to LH early in the morning and thus probably posted the same day, September 4. See postmark: 12 o'clock 4 / Two penny . 2. The Clandestine Marriage (1789), a comedy by George Colman, the elder, and David Garrick performed at the Haymarket Theatre on September 3, 1806 for the first time in twenty-five years (Genest, English Stage, VIII, 24) . 3. Likely a reference to the anecdote of Goldsmith's return home from Edgeworthstown when he was sixteen. With his own horse and travelling money for the first time, he decided to be the independent traveller and stay overnight at an inn. Thus at the little town of Ardagh, he asked the first person he met to d
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	Luther A. Brewer, ed. My Leigh Hunt Library, the Holograph Letters. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1938, p. 26.

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Relation - Is Part Of	Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, Sept. 4, 1806
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
File Name	h94hum2-28_page1.jpg
Transcript	[London] Wednesday [for Thursday] Morning[1] 7 o'clock. [September 4, 1806] You will excuse, my dear girl, this curious slip of paper; Mrs. Hunter is not yet up, and I can neither get at her desk, nor, what is very astonishing, find any larger paper in my own; but as I promised to write to you immediately I received your answer, and as I did not see your letter till my return from The Clandestine Marriage[2] last night, I have sat down to write to you in the best manner I can before breakfast.— What you imagined about Dr. Goldsmith is very true; his host and he became afterwards very close friends.[3] Drury Lane opens on Saturday week & Covent--Garden the Monday following. I am obliged to you for your letter, but I cannot help telling you in the honesty of a sincere affection that I expected a less careless one: you express a regard for your instructor; but do you express that regard in the best way you could? You fill my heart with tenderness by describing your continual thoughts of me, but the style in which you have described them, so hurried and so negligent, makes me doubt whether you do not wish to get rid of those thoughts. You tell me that your head is aching violently while you are writing to me, and certainly no excuse

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