Concerning Valentine verses, first line being: In loneliness ne'er felt before, which he sends, hoping they are suitable; would write to Julia Smith himself, if he could write better verses; asks for the return of "some bound lines on kissing."
Concerning his request for Hunt to send the first stanza of his The song of the flowers in his autograph and signature, which La Page wishes to have bound with Hunt's poems; praises the Indicator and Comanion.
Concerning his failure to find a copy of the Literary pocket-book; his thanks for her remembrance to his wife on her birthday; the death of Egerton Webbe's mother.
Concerning his request for more aid from the Literary fund; his need of a hundred pounds to pay rent, small debts, and to allow him to move to a cheaper house in Chelsea; Moxon's suggestion that the money could be returned from the sale of so many...
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Swift, Mrs. Elizabeth S (Lorrain); Hunt, Vincent, 1823-1852; Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1788-1857;
Concerning the illness of Vincent and of Mrs. Hunt and himself; his inability to come to America; begs her and Dr. Swift to visit him and attend the Great Exhibition; Vincent's relapses. Letter dated Aug. 13, Sept. 12 and Dec. 3, 1851.
Concerning his agreement with Wilson's Tory beliefs; accuses Blackwood's magazine and Wilson of offensive treatment of the "Cockney" poets, Shelley, Keats, Hunt, Procter and Tennyson, because their political ideas were not in agreement with...
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889;
Concerning a group of his verses, including his Translations from the Greek anthology which he desires Hall to publish in the New monthly magazine, and his plea for Hall to secure Saunders and Ottley as publishers of his One hundred romances of...
Concerning his memorials of Kensington; his referral to Clarke by Westmore in order to get a list of births and marriages in the area; his desire to arrange a meeting.
Concerning the return of his Aethra; her praise of his legends; his pleasure over her Hearth and home; her "radical" Waiting for the verdict; her wish that she might see some of his works printed in Lippincott's magazine. Her "protest against the...