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Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, January 4, 1811

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Title	Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, January 4, 1811
Creator	Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Date Original	1811-01-04
Description	Concerning Trinity College, Oxford.
Personal Name Subject	Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Geographic Subject	England -- Cambridgeshire
Chronological Subject	1810-1820
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	bound MsL H94hum4 leaf 19 (one of 18 letters in MsL H94hum4)
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)	22.6
Width (cm)	18.2
Number of Pages	3 + 1 blank
Number of Sheets of Paper	1
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Zeutschel OS 12000 scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Archival tiff image available.
Date Digital	2009-04-02
Transcript	Trinity College, Cambridge Friday 4th. Jan. 1811 . Marianna mia , I arrived here at a little after five o'clock last night with feet as cold as ice but very comfortable in other respects, in spite of a miserable indulged infant who pestered me with its noise for upwards of thirty miles. The remaining part of the evening I devoted to Scholefield's[1] fireside and to warming my feet, and at eleven went to bed in a snug little room directly under his own and on a first floor. This morning I have been writing my theatrical,[2] so that I have seen hardly anything of Cambridge, except Trinity College, and only the general appearance of that. It consists of two noble squares with stone buildings, and of Gothic architecture intermingled with a later style. In the hall, where they dine, are whole-length portraits of Bacon, Dryden, and Newton, chiefly copies from Kneller,[3] which I worshipped as in duty bound. Among the other small relics of popery, which are usual with all such establishments, they have a very singular one here: after dinner, they put up a prayer for the soul of Henry the Eighth, the founder. Is not this the climax of all mockery?-The /town of/ University, by the general glimpse I caught of it last night, appears to me to out a much nobler figure that I should have thought after all the panegyrics passed on Oxford; but the country around is dismal indeed, and looks like the worst picture of Holland, with nothing but flats, dykes, and stumpy willows with their boughs on end. When I looked out of the coach window, upon the wilderness covered with snow, it seemed just like an immense sheet of paper diversied [sic] with streams of ink and read-stuck pincushions fixed on /poles/ posts.--It does not snow at present, but in default of that it freezes as hard as possible, and a most insinuating wind comes through every nook and corner.--But I have not times to wanton in description, and in fact have nothing more worth describing at present, unless it be the Cambridge butter, which, as you may have heard, is made in yards, and served up in inches: in the frosty weather you might rule your paper with it; or roll out paste; or peradventure, convert it into an Italian iron.[4]--Pray write to me, my dear girl, as quickly as you can. I promise you that for every one of your pages, I will send you two. Kiss Thornton heartily for me, and remember me to all friends round the fire-side, where I hope Mrs. Hunter is safely seated again. Your affectionate Henry. Mrs. Hunt , at Mr. Hunter's , 22. Carburton Street , Fitzroy Square , London. [in bottom left corner] Single Friday 4th. Jan. 1811
Transcript Notes	1. James Scholefield (1789-1853), educated at Christ's Hospital and sent by the governors to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1809. Later he became Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. 2. Criticism of a new play. Lost and Found, whose author, Martin Kedgwin Masters, LH was unable to discover (Examiner, January 6, 1811). 3. Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) portrait painter. He painted Dryden several times, including in 1695, and Newton at least twice, in 1689 and 1702. The 1695 Dryden and 1702 Newton are in the National Portrait Gallery. The approximately seven by four and a half foot portraits of both Bacon and Newton in Trinity Hall were painted in l835 by Val Ritts, a German painter who resided in Cambridge for many years and made numerous copies. The paintings were donated to Trinity College by S. Knight in 1752, according to notes on the respective canvases. Trinity Hall now possesses an original Kneller half-length picture of Dryden given by Sir Thomas Barlow in 1946. (See Lord Kilanin, Sir Godfrey Kneller and His Times, 1646-1723 [London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1948-]) 4. "A hollow cylindrical iron and heater, used for fluting and crimping lace, frills, etc." (OED).
Transcript By	Brewer, Luther Cheney, David R. (David Raymond), 1922-2006
Transcript Location	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Letter Published In	Thornton Hunt, ed. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1862, vol. I, 47-48.

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Relation - Is Part Of	Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, Jan. 4, 1811
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
File Name	h94hum4-19_Page1.jpg
Transcript	Trinity College, Cambridge Friday 4th. Jan. 1811. Marianna mia, I arrived here at a little after five o'clock last night with feet as cold as ice but very comfortable in other respects, in spite of a miserable indulged infant who pestered me with its noise for upwards of thirty miles. The remaining part of the evening I devoted to Scholefield's fireside and to warming my feet, and at eleven went to bed in a snug little room directly under his own and on a first floor. This morning I have been writing my theatrical, so that I have seen hardly anything of Cambridge, except Trinity College, and only the general appearance of that. It consists of two noble squares with stone buildings, and of Gothic architecture intermingled with a later style. In the hall, where they dine, are whole-length portraits of Bacon, Dryden, and Newton, chiefly copies from Kneller, which I worshipped as in duty bound. Among the other small relics of popery, which are usual with all such establishments, they have a very singular one here: after dinner, they put up a prayer for the soul of Henry the Eighth, the founder. Is not this the climax of all mockery?-The /----/ University, by the general glimpse I caught

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