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M. Shelley letter to Leigh Hunt, 19th century

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Title	M. Shelley letter to Leigh Hunt, 19th century
Creator	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Date Original	1800/1899
Description	Concerning the difficulties of editing Shelley's translation from Greek of a treatise on love; possible interpretations by the reader; Hunt's unsatisfactory suggestions.
Personal Name Subject	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
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 S54h leaf 1 (one of 4 letters in MsL S54h)
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)	22.4
Width (cm)	18.5
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	2009-04-29
Transcript	Dear Hunt You have puzzled me much. What you said convinced me. You said: “Do as Mills, who has just phrased it so that the common reader will think common love is meant--the learned alone will know what is meant.” Accordingly I read the Phaedrus & found less of a veil even than I expected—/---/ thus I was emboldened to leave it so that one sort of civilized love should be understood.-- Now you change all this back into friendship-- which makes the difficulty as great as ever. I wished in every way /to leave/ to preserve as many of Shelley’s own words as possible-- & I was glad to do so under the new idea which you imparted-- but you alterations puzzle me mightily-- I do not like not to abide by them-- yet they destroy your own argument that different sexes would be understand, /---/ & thus all is in confusion. Accordingly I have left some & not others-- where you seemed very vehement-- & your p. 192 I have altered & omitted as you mention-- but I could not bring myself to leave the word love out entirely from a treatise on Love. With regard to your verbal corrections—/Shelley/ this was no hasty translation-- Shelley read it over aloud several times-- so some things that look uncouth, I suppose he thought, as you phrase it-- mere Greek-- and I like to leave it as he left it as much as possible. After all the beauty of the piece consists in Agathon’s, Socrates’, & Alcibiades speeches-- the rest are of minor importance. It is puzzling-- that’s a fact as the Americans say. I shall have other sheets so--so hope you will come to look at them. Will you dine here next Wednesday-- or Thursday-- if Thursday write directly if I don’t hear from you I shall expect you on Wednesday. Ever truly yours M.W. Shelley Thursday
Transcript By	Brewer, Luther
Transcript Location	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Relation - Is Part Of	M. Shelley letter to Leigh Hunt, 19th century
Digital Collection	Leigh Hunt Letters
File Name	s54h-1_Page1.jpg
Transcript	Dear Hunt You have puzzled me much. What you said convinced me. You said: "Do as Mills, who has just phrased it so that the common reader will think common love is meant--the learned alone will know what is meant." Accordingly I read the Phaedrus & found less of a veil even than I expected-/---/ thus I was emboldened to leave it so that one sort of civilized love should be understood.-- Now you change

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