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Alexander Ireland letter to Robert Browning, July 8, 1883

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Title	Alexander Ireland letter to Robert Browning, July 8, 1883
Creator	Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
Date Original	1883-07-08
Description	Concerning the "charming and characteristic" letter from Leigh Hunt to Browning published in the Athenaeum; his longstanding correspondence with, and love of, Hunt; his Book-lover's Enchiridion, and the notes on Hunt found in it; his plans for an enlarged edition, desire to include additional passages, and his interest in preparing a volume of selections from Hunt's prose works.
Note	Letter removed from : Title: List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt : chronologically arranged with notes, descriptive, critical, and explanatory; and a selection of opinions regarding their genius and characteristics, by distinguished contemporaries and friends as well as by subsequent critics; preceded by a review of, and extracts from, Barry Cornwall's "Memorials of Charles Lamb;" with a few words on William Hazlitt and his writings, and a chronological list of the works of Charles Lamb . Author: Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 . Published: London : John Russell Smith, 1868 . Call number: Z8393.4.I66 Copy: 2 Inscription: John Bell Esqr. with Alexr Ireland's compliments Feby 18, 1868
Personal Name Subject	Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Geographic Subject	England -- Trafford -- Bowdon
Chronological Subject	1880-1890
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	MsL I65b
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)	16
Width (cm)	10.7
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	2008-12-12
Transcript	[sideways on left side of page 1] I inclose 3 pieces by Hunt, in case you may not have [?had] with them- [top of page 1] I also inclose for your perusal an article of mine on the relations between [?Carlyle] and Hunt, which appeared 2 years ago in the Athenaeum. Inglewood Bowdon Cheshire July 8th 1883 Dear Sir, I have just been reading in this week's "Athenaeum" Leigh Hunt's charming and characteristic letter to you. Let every lover of Hunt be grateful to you for this. I am doubly so. I claim to be a lover of Hunt in virtue of having known him. I [?] him. I corresponded with him for 22 years, of having been a reader of his from my 18th year, & and of having many years ago printed a Bibliographical List of his voluminous works with Notes, elucidations, [?] and subsequent opinions about him. [?] you have conferred a boon on Literature by allowing this letter to be printed: as you have avowed yourself unadmiring of his genius and character, I may be pardoned for sending you some papers I have put together about him and Hazlitt-which you will find in the appendix to a little volume of mine, called "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" sent herewith. Of this volume I am preparing a new and much enlarged Edition, in larger type, and this prompts me to say that it would add to the valor of its contents if I could have the privilege of including a range from your writings on the special subject to which it is devoted-may the solace and companionship of books, and what they do for us as guides, counsellors, and friends-I have all your books and am a diligent and benefitted reader of them, and my wife is even a more earnest and grateful student of them than I am. Hitherto I have been unable to find any suitable range. You will find I have given some lines from that peerless poem "Aurora Leigh." I would fain add your name to the bead-roll. It has often struck me that a volume of Selections from Hunt's Prose works, as well as his Poems, (a [?deridevative] in our Literature) might be made, which would be welcome to many. In my admiration of Hunt I have in the course of years gathered everything he has printed, and have much of his in the shape of forgotten articles in magazines between 1820 and 1859, which have never been reprinted. To me it would be a labour of love to make such a Selection; but I must not detain you longer, I am, Dear Sir, yours faithfully and gratefully, Alex Ireland P.S. I may say that the printing of the new edition of my book has got to 1811, and all entrants are in chronological order, and as you were born in 1812, a suitable [?], if one can be found, could be just in the nick of time. Robert Browning
Transcript By	Cook, Susan E.
Transcript Location	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Relation - Is Part Of	Alexander Ireland letter to Robert Browning, July 8, 1883
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
File Name	I65b_Page1.jpg
Transcript	[sideways on left side of page 1] I inclose 3 pieces by Hunt, in case you may not have [?had] with them- [top of page 1] I also inclose for your perusal an article of mine on the relations between [?Carlyle] and Hunt, which appeared 2 years ago in the Athenaeum. Inglewood Bowdon Cheshire July 8th 1883 Dear Sir, I have just been reading in this week's "Athenaeum" Leigh Hunt's charming and characteristic letter to you. Let every lover of Hunt be grateful to you for this. I am doubly so. I claim to be a lover of Hunt in virtue of having known him. I [?] him. I corresponded with him for 22 years, of having been a reader of his from my 18th year, & and of having many years ago printed

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