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| Title | Leigh Hunt letter to Rowland Hunter, July 12, 1807 |
| Creator |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 |
| Date Original | 1807-07-12 |
| Description | Concerning Margate; a visit to James Barclay. |
| Note | This letter is located in the Pforzheimer Library. |
| Personal Name Subject |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Hunter, Rowland Hunter, Ann Kent Kent, Elizabeth, 1790-1861 Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Barclay, James Dyer, George, 1755-1841 |
| Geographic Subject |
England -- Margate |
| 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 | Pforzheimer Library |
| Collection Guide | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/resources/Brewer-LeighHunt.html |
| Location | LH 252 |
| 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 | 2008-10-01 |
| Transcript |
[Margate] Sunday Morn. 12th. July 1807 . Dear Sir , Your family will be glad to hear that I arrived at Margate, very safe, though very sleepy, on Saturday morning at ten, after embarking from London at six on Friday Morning: one half of the way we were becalmed, and the other half thwarted in our teeth by a brisk wind, which drove me from my retirement at the head of the vessel, by spoiling my hat with the salt water and giving my gaping mouth a very unexpected dose of Mrs. Hunter's specific. Nevertheless I was not sick, though the hoy played upon the waves like a rocking-horse, indeed I am so hardened in this matter, that what with my singularity with respect to other passengers and my want or pity for their pathetic emotions, I am afraid I have really got no bowels, saving Mrs. Hunter's presence . About three o'clock on Friday we cast anchor at Purfleet in the Thames, where I met a very pleasant relief from the hot sameness of the hoy, by landing and visiting Mr. |
| Transcript Notes |
1. James Barclay (SC, I, 415) . 2. Benjamin Franklin who, incidentally, as a friend of LH's maternal grandfather, had offered to teach LH's mother how to play the guitar (Autobiography, p. 22) . 3. George Dyer (1755-1841), author, former master of Christ's Hospital. He was kindly but totally lacked a sense of humor and thus was the source of much amusement to his friend Charles Lamb. Here LH is making similar fun of his "dab-dab mode of speaking" as Charles Cowden Clarke dubbed it (ROW, p. 11). |
| 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 | Kenneth Neill Cameron and Donald H. Reiman, eds. Shelly and His Circle. 1773-1822. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1961-73., vol. I, 413-414. |
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| Title | page1 |
| Relation - Is Part Of | Leigh Hunt letter to Rowland Hunter, July 12, 1807 |
| Digital Collection | Leigh Hunt Letters |
| File Name | dummypforz-lh-252_page1.jpg |
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