Leigh Hunt letter to Bryan Waller Procter [Barry Cornwall], February 24, 1858

              Hammersmith, Feb. 24.  

My dear Procter,   

Pardon this apparently thankless delay in acknowledging the re-ceipt of your most welcome letter. I have long ceased to be in arrears with correspondents in general, such correspondents as yourself in par-ticular; but I have fairly kept a whole batch of them waiting this time, owing to my having been running a race with time for a magazine; and time after all has distanced me, and I must begin running now in another direction; but I   
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see by this that I was aware of the poems being out at Boston, and that the introductory prose matter written expressly for the editors by my American friend & myself have not wholly been without profit. - I hear also that the "Sonnet Book" is to come out in the spring; and "Prose Works" will follow in the winter. So your old friend is looking up in two hemispheres at once!   /--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---/ There was an announcement here a little over sanguine; - but I hope, only a little so. - Ever affectionately yours, 
Leigh Hunt.