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[London ?March 28, 1807]
My kindest girl,
I am very grateful for the long letter you sent me, however ungrateful you may think me in not writing; but my head has been so confused with one thing and another, and I am so perpetually interrupted with visitors, that my time has either been useless or taken from me. Nevertheless all this is no proper excuse, I know; but I know also, that you will forgive me a thousand failings for the sake of my love towards you; and indeed if any thing could have made me think oftener of you, it was the idea that I ought to have written to you, which has reproached me ever since I received your letter.
I have been occupied all the morning in money matters, and it is now past four, but I thought I would sit down to talk a little with you, even if it were only to say "How d'ye do," and "I love you dearly."- Will you be angry with me now?
Tomorrow I will cram a sheet of paper as full as it can hold, so that you must consider this letter merely as a kind of outrider announcing the approach of some splendid equipage.-- But in the mean time the postman must share some of my blame, for though you would rather send to Mrs. Hunter for some newspapers than to me, yet I do assure you I have sent you three or four one day after another, and the paper of to day accompanies the present epistle.- Very well, Miss Kent; so you really
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, March 28, 1807 |
| Creator |
Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857 |
| Date Original | 1807-03-28 |
| Description | Concerning his delay in writing and his promise to write a longer letter the following day; the impossibility of his forgetting her; the resignation of the Secretary of War and other ministers. |
| Personal Name Subject |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857 Hunter, Ann Kent |
| 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 34 (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) | 23.5 |
| Width (cm) | 18.9 |
| Number of Pages | 3 |
| 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 | 2008-10-01 |
| Transcript | [London ?March 28, 1807] |
| Transcript Notes |
1. Richard Fitzpatrick (1747-1813), appointed secretary at war in February 1806 when Lord Grenville became head of a coalition government. Fitzpatrick resigned with the other ministers in March 1807 when they refused to assure the king that they would not press upon him any further measures for the relief of Roman Catholics. Sir James Murray Pulteney, seventh Baron of Clermont, Fifeshire (1751?-1811), general, succeeded Fitzpatrick as Secretary at War . 2. "Brighton" underlined twice. |
| 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, pp. 28-29. |
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