Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, October 10, 1829

              Saturday-October 10.-  
Dearest Molly,  
I was extremely startled at hearing that Thornton had been so ill, & equally relieved to find he had recovered.[1] Give my best love to him, & tell him how rejoiced I am to find there is no danger.  I know, too well, what it is to go through those delicacies; but then we all love each other the better for them, though hard necessity may force one of
us to forego them at last.  The more I think of Brompton, &
the good which change of air might do to all invalids
(Vincent among them)[2] the more I long to be there.  I am sure
also I should write double what I do here, double in
quantity, & double in quality.  And the commencement of my
work is a very peculiar one, & forces me to alter & add, &
search every nook & corner of authorities, because other
people have handled that part of my subject, & I must not
omit nor merely repeat any thing.  When I get into the
literary memorandums of the streets, I shall go on
swimmingly.  But then how vexatious meanwhile to occupy
whole mornings with but three or four pages, & keep you
waiting in that tormenting place!  Is there no way of getting
out, when you receive the f20?  Could not some come away, &
enable me, with them, to get into the Brompton house?[3]
Should I go there at once, with the boxes, & let you
gradually join me?  I want all my books about me sadly, &
room & to see you quiet.  Pray answer me these things.
   
You will be pleased to hear that Stuart & Mills will make the clothes, provided I settle for them (them alone, I mean) at Christmas:-so let me know exactly what the boys want. They are prepared to make 3 whole suits, if necessary; which Mills says would not come to more than f10; for he is to make them as cheaply as possible.  
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All will go much better, when the boys get to school, & Mary to her music.- I shall see Capper on Monday, & have little doubt he will be as kind as Mills & Stuart.  

P. S.  You will be glad to see the accompanying letter of Nancy's to her father.  She wrote another nice one the other day to him, in which she thanked me for a book I sent her on
 
her birthday, & said all sorts of sensible & delicate things about it, to make a rich present of a poor one.  Tell Thornton it was his Travels of Cyrus, & that I took the liberty of erasing his name, & giving it her, for which I will give him one twice as good by & by.  Mrs. Hunter's paroxysms have made her ill, & perhaps a little sorry for them.  I wrote in Nancy's book,-  
	"From a poor patriot to a kind sister,
	
	on her birthday, Oct. 7. &c."  
	Tell Henry I will write to him next week; & kiss him, & Vincent, & Jacintha.  I will write to Vincent also.