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Hammersmith-Nov. 26. [1856]
My dear Sir,
I beg your pardon for not having sooner answered your letter. I have had many interruptions, and have been suffering also under cough & bronchitis. These ailments render it impossible for me at present to fix a day for coming to do what you desire, happy as I should be to submit my old face to your friendly vindication of it, however unworthy, I am afraid, of any one's attention. Meantime you are as sure to find me
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Leigh Hunt letter to Horace Harral, November 26, 1856 |
| Creator |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 |
| Date Original | 1856-11-26 |
| Description | Concerning his illness, which prevents him from setting a day "to submit my old face to your friendly vindication of it". |
| Personal Name Subject |
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Harral, Horace |
| Geographic Subject |
England -- London -- Hammersmith and Fulham -- Hammersmith |
| Chronological Subject |
1850-1860 |
| 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 H94har |
| 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) | 11.0 |
| Width (cm) | 9.0 |
| Number of Pages | 2 + 2 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 | 2008-10-03 |
| Transcript |
Hammersmith-Nov. 26. [1856] My dear Sir , I beg your pardon for not having sooner answered your letter. I have had many interruptions, and have been suffering also under cough & bronchitis. These ailments render it impossible for me at present to fix a day for coming to do what you desire, happy as I should be to submit my old face to your friendly vindication of it, however unworthy, I am afraid, of any one's attention. Meantime you are as sure to find me [page break] at home any evening as the poker at my fireside, and I shall always be glad to see you. You grieve me with the news of the Johnsons' house. I beg you to give them my kindest remembrances, and tell them so,-unless the wound is too painful to touch . With much esteem ever truly yours , Leigh Hunt. Horace Harral Esqre. |
| Transcript Notes |
Hunt's bronchitis in late 1856 helps to date this letter. Harral, who visited Leigh Hunt and his son Vincent at Ewell in June 1852 (Holograph Letters, p. 329), was an engraver who had studied with Orrin Smith and William J. Linton. He was associated with the Illustrated London News, 1850-71. In the 1860s and 1870s, he exhibited regularly in London, notably at the Royal Academy, and illustrated the works of such poets as Burns, Campbell, Coleridge, and Longfellow. His relations with Hunt here evidently involved the engraving of a portrait. A letter in the New York Public Library suggests that Hunt was helping Harral with some research in April of 1855; a letter dated April 7, in Brewer's First Editions, p. 223, is probably also to Harral. In 1849, Hunt inscribed a copy of his Poetical Works, brought out that year by Moxon, to a "Fanny Johnson with kindest regards of Leigh Hunt." (book in Wesleyan University Library's Special Collections). This may be the Johnson family to which reference is made in the following . |
| 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. 584-585; |
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| Title | Page1 |
| Relation - Is Part Of | Leigh Hunt letter to Horace Harral, Nov. 26, 1856 |
| Digital Collection | Leigh Hunt Letters |
| File Name | h94har_Page1.jpg |
| Transcript | Hammersmith-Nov. 26. [1856] My dear Sir, I beg your pardon for not having sooner answered your letter. I have had many interruptions, and have been suffering also under cough & bronchitis. These ailments render it impossible for me at present to fix a day for coming to do what you desire, happy as I should be to submit my old face to your friendly vindication of it, however unworthy, I am afraid, of any one's attention. Meantime you are as sure to find me |
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