John Hunt letter to Leigh Hunt, February 11, 1813

              My dear Leigh,  

I have just heard, with great pain, that you have been visited /with/ by another attack, and a very violent one, of your disorder, and that you have had a Physician. at the same time, I learn that you are again better; and I fervently hope that you will continue to mend.  This imprisonment of ours, I am quite sure, you could well bear, if your health was like mine; but as it is, I plainly see that you have a double evil to grapple with. All that I can say is, -- (for I shall not deport those commonplaces about patience and fortitude, which might be usefull, indeed, to ignorance and imbecility, --) that as you have an additional and most powerful enemy to combat, the higher honour you will obtain by the victory.

  
The particulars of your situation, I have learned from Mr. Whiting and others; and as to apartments, I find you are not altogether wretched. For the present, I have only one little room, about 16 feet by nine - but then it is light and airy, looking over some nasty places towards Hampstead and Highgate. The discipline of this place is very rigid. Neither books, pens, ink, paper, wine, or spirits, are allowed by the rules: I have them only by stealth: The hours allowed for visits, are only from 12 to 2, and the visitors are left outside a grated door, with a space between them and their friends by the license of Mr. Adkins, however, I