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Leigh Hunt letter to P. G. Patmore, June 8, 1844

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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to P. G. Patmore, June 8, 1844
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1844-06-08
Description	Concerning his inability to accept Patmore's invitation, as he is "still in a very poor convalescence"; thanking Patmore for speaking with Colburn.
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Patmore, P. G. (Peter George), 1786-1855 Colburn, Henry, d. 1855
Geographic Subject	England -- London -- Kensington and Chelsea -- Kensington
Chronological Subject	1840-1850
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 H94pa no. 3
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
Width (cm)	9.2
Number of Pages	4
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	2008-11-07
Transcript	Kensington-June 8th [1844] Saturday My dear Patmore , Your very kind letter came here last night between 7 & 8, but was unfortunately not given to me till this morning between 8 & 9, so that I write headlong in order [page break] to get off the answer to you by the first post. Your invitation would, on all or any of the accounts you mention, be irresistible, if by any possibility I could yet accept it; but I am still in a very poor convalescence, needing home, and not only so (for a house [page break] P.S. Has Colburn a mind that I should write for N. M. "Stories from the Italian Poets in prose, with occasional versions"? &. if so, will you let me know speedily . such as yours must be, I think I could suddenly convert into another home "for the nonce") but have very lately been compelled to resist the invitations of other kind friends, who would have reason to complain of me if I went to see one, & not another. So you must keep your invitation to ask for me a [page break] few weeks longer. I expect to be able to make my first answering call since my long illness, only next week; after which I trust to progress into greater goings out. Many thanks for your speaking to Colburn. I mentioned the novel (to tell you the truth) only that by stimulating his possible desire to have it by & by, I might possibly render him more courteous now; but I shall be most glad, when it is finished, if you will favour me & mine with a look at it, Colburn- [page break- continued on top of front page] wards, in case another bookseller who has views Hunt-wards, does not carry it off. I do not mean Bentley, but a new man. Meantime, could you not, by some very generous effort of travel, contrive to come & spend an evening here with an invalid, bringing your son & some more of his poetry with you? -I must close my letter, lest the clock should strike . Ever most truly yrs . L.H.
Transcript Notes	The novel referred to in the third paragraph of this letter is Thornton Hunt's not-yet-finished The Foster-Brother, for which his father later provided an introduction. It was published in 1845 by T. C. Newby in three volumes. Hunt evidently thought well of the work because in an earlier letter to Patmore he had written: "My eldest has just finished two volumes of a novel which, unless my paternity is vastly mistaken indeed, will make no little sensation..." (see A Catalogue of the Library of Coventry Patmore, published by The Serendipity Shop, 7 East Chapel Street, London, 1921, #484; and Luther Brewer, The Holograph Letters, p. 295, where it is dated c. 1845) . Publishers Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley had joined forces in September 1829 but went their separate, rival ways after August 1832. Patmore was an editor of the New Monthly, 1841-45, when it was in Colburn's hands . Patmore's son was Coventry Patmore whose poetry was first published in 1844-and favorably reviewed by Hunt in Ainsworth's Magazine in July of that year. He had met Hunt earlier in the decade in a memorable encounter. The mid-1840s marked the high point of the younger poet's admiration for Hunt, as evidenced by Patmore's markings in his copy of the 1844 edition of Leigh Hunt's Poetical Works. Later in the nineteenth century, when his fame easily eclipsed that of his father, the onetime companion of Hazlitt, and probably that of Hunt as well, his respect would not prevent him from parodying one of Leigh Hunt's worst couplets in Rimini, "The two divinist things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot" into "Two of the nicest things a man can grab-/ A handsome woman in a hansom cab." (See A Catalogue of the Library of Coventry Patmore, #200). By the word "versions" in the postscript, Hunt means translations of the Italian verses. Prose stories mixed with occasional verses was the format Hunt's Stories from the Italian Poets took when published by Chapman and Hall 1846. Hunt's "Death and the Ruffians. A Tale from Chaucer" was published in the New Monthly for August 1845 (pp. 509-512); "Lazy Corner; or Bed versus Business. From the Italian of Berni" in the October 1845 number (pp. 143-148). Thornton Hunt's Foster-Brother: a Tale of the War of Chiozza was reviewed in November 1845 (pp. 374-375); and Leigh Hunt's Stories from the Italian Poets, in the February 1846 number of the New Monthly (pp. 246-248). But all this occurred during William Harrison Ainsworth's reign as editor and proprietor .
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. 424-426;

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Transcript	wards, in case another bookseller who has views Hunt-wards, does not carry it off. I do not mean Bentley, but a new man. Meantime, could you not, by some very generous effort of travel, contrive to come & spend an evening here with an invalid, bringing your son & some more of his poetry with you? -I must close my letter, lest the clock should strike. Ever most truly yrs. L.H. [continued from Page4] Kensington-June 8th [1844] Saturday My dear Patmore, Your very kind letter came here last night between 7 & 8, but was unfortunately not given to me till this morning between 8 & 9, so that I write headlong in order

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