Leigh Hunt letter to John Hunt, October 10, 1822

              Genoa--10  Oct.   1822.       
My dear John,  
Just as I was going to write to you, I received yours of the 20. Sept.  People here do not approve of the new works being thrown into the Examiner, &  Lord Byron, who is kind enough to say that my advantage is his great object, is still perfectly willing that the magazine[1] should be proceeded with, provided you think it would be best.  What do you think best, for really I cannot determine?  At all events, make your own election, & act upon it at once.  This is what his Lordship wishes, as well as myself.  With regard to what I felt respecting the Examiner, Mrs. S.[Shelley] thinks that some arrangement might be made altogether, which would be equally pleasant to yourself as to me, & the Magazine be continued.  If so, & you think the latter would be most profitable, pray proceed with it.  Indeed since the receipt of your letter, & of one from Murray inclosing the advertisement you sent round to the booksellers, Lord B. [Byron] thinks you must have done so much as to render the Examiner plan impossible.  He thinks it would have been as
  well had you omitted the direct mention of the names in advertising a periodical work, in which others too will write; but upon the whole he is well pleased, &   I think now
  would much prefer the Magazine.  Have you got the Preface to
The Vision?  He says the poem ought not to appear without
it.  He wishes
  [Continued on Top of First Page from Second Page]  
Should you have announced the Examiner plan, & still wish to change it, I suppose you can do so, as you will then have announced them both.  It is an awkward business; but you have full warrant at all events to do just as you please, let what will have been announced.  Matters can be explained, especially as we shall have more writers to assist us than I looked for.  Pray ask Lamb to write.  Lord Byron wishes it as well as myself, & on every account I wish it extremely.