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Search for: Add. 38108
38108-38111. CORRESPONDENCE of Leigh Hunt; 1807-1859. Four
volumes. The great majority of the letters are addressed to Hunt,
but some are written by himself, e.g. letters to Dr. Southwood Smith.
The names of the writers are given in the Index; they include Lords
Brougham and Macaulay, C. Dickens, T. N. Talfourd, J. S. Mill,
John Forster, W. H. Ainsworth, John Bowring, and many others.
Many of the letters are printed in Hunt's Correspondence, 1862.
There are also letters addressed to Mrs. Hunt, to Thornton Hunt,
Leigh Hunt's eldest son, and some others, bringing the extreme date
down to 1862. Autograph MSS. of some of Hunt's literary productions
are included, e.g. "The Dogs" (see The Liberal, 1822, p. 24,5).
38108, f. 204 ; "Virgil's Hostess" (ib. p. 377). f. 247 ;-(c) "My
Books " (see The Literary Examiner, 5, 12 July, 1823). f. 262. In
38109, f. 1, is the prospectus of the Magazine projected by Hunt
while in Italy (see Autobiography, p. 368), and agreements with
publishers are in 38109, f. 325, 38110, ff. 7, 67, and 38111, f. 133.
The MS. form of the sign manual with which Hunt closed his
Examiner articles will be found in 38108, f. 194. In 38111 (f. 445 b)
is an Arabic MS. consisting of friendly messages from Khwãjah
Anton to Khwãjah Fadl Allãh concerning his voyages in South
Western Europe; and in an envelope at the end (f. 450) is a lock
of Thomas Stothard's hair.
Paper; ff 340, 363, 411, 451. Folio,
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