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Edmund Ollier letter to Alexander Ireland, March 28, 1868

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Title	Edmund Ollier letter to Alexander Ireland, March 28, 1868
Creator	Ollier, Edmund, 1827-1886
Date Original	1868-03-28
Description	Concerning his receipt of Ireland's letter and book on Leigh Hunt; his writings about Hunt in the Spectator, the Daily News, and the Atlas; articles providing Dickens' "testimony to the genius and excellence of our friend"; the origins of other passages and quotations used in Ireland's book; his surprise that Ireland has correctly attributed anonymously published poems to him.
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: 1
Personal Name Subject	Ollier, Edmund, 1827-1886 Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Geographic Subject	England -- London -- Kensington and Chelsea -- Kensington
Chronological Subject	1860-1870
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 O49i2
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)	18.0
Width (cm)	11.5
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	2009-04-15
Transcript	London, 10 Victoria Grove South Kensington, -W . March 28th, 1868 My dear Sir , I have recd from Mr Hotten your most welcome volume, & the very kind & flattering letter by which it is accompanied. To me the book is in the highest degree interesting, & I shall prize it greatly. I knew Leigh Hunt well for several years, & hold his memory in loving reverence. The article from the Spectator, which you quote at pp. 95-6-7, was by me. It was written at the special request of my friend Mr Thornton Hunt, & at the same time I wrote a paper on his father in the Daily, News, & another [page break] in the Atlas, of which I was at that time the Editor. These articles contain some particulars of his last moments, not published elsewhere; but they are more correctly given in the Atlas than in the Daily News, Mr. Reynell having /---/ set me right in some minor points. The passages from All the Year Round attributed at pp. xix & 81 to Mr. Dickens are also bt me; so also is the quotation at p.199 from the Leader, which I then sub-edited. I also wrote a long article in the Leader on the production at the Lyceum Theatre of “Lovers’ Amazements”- an article with which I recollect /he/ L.H. was exceedingly pleased, for the spirit of personal regard towards himself by which it was animated. Of Dicken’s own testimony to the genius and excellence of our friend, there is not only the article in A.Y.R. of Dec. 24th , [page break] 1859, to which you allude at p. 83, but a very pleasant paper (which I think you have overlooked) in Household Words of June 16th, 1855, called “By Rail to Parnassus,” and consisting of a quaint review of Leigh Hunt’s Poems, then just republished . Your own article from the Manchester Examiner I have read with great pleasure. I think it a capital piece of criticism on the man & the writer . Hazlitt & Lamb I do not recollect, for I was a mere child when they died; yet I shall read with interest (second only to the interest I feel in Leigh Hunt) those portions of your book which refer to them . Many thanks for the kind expressions you are as to my poems. I purposely made the volume brief, partly from motives of economy, & partly because I wished to [page break] give only what I considered the best. But how did you come to know that the poems abt which you inquire were by me? for they published anonymously. I have been so accustomed to regard myself as the obscurest of men, that your being aware of the fact in question is almost startling true . If ever I have the good fortune to get as far with as Manchester, I shall hope to take you by the hand; & meanwhile am Yours very sincerely & gratefully Edmund Ollier Alexander Ireland, Esq
Transcript By	Anonymous
Transcript Location	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Relation - Is Part Of	Edmund Ollier letter to Alexander Ireland, Mar. 28, 1868
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
File Name	O49i2_Page1.jpg
Transcript	London, 10 Victoria Grove South Kensington, -W . March 28th, 1868 My dear Sir , I have recd from Mr Hotten your most welcome volume, & the very kind & flattering letter by which it is accompanied. To me the book is in the highest degree interesting, & I shall prize it greatly. I knew Leigh Hunt well for several years, & hold his memory in loving reverence. The article from the Spectator, which you quote at pp. 95-6-7, was by me. It was written at the special request of my friend Mr Thornton Hunt, & at the same time I wrote a paper on his father in the Daily, News, & another [page break]

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