John Hunt manuscript material : 7 items, 1821-1837

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John Hunt manuscript material : 7 items, 1821-1837

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· To Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist, and literary critic (his brother) : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Apr 1830 : (H'ANA 0032) : begins, "At present, circumstances constrain me to apply myself solely to the business in which I am occupied." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Sep 1837 : (H'ANA 0015) : from Red Hill, near Exeter; begins, "Your note was most acceptable to me, written as it is in a spirit at once peaceful and affectionate." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" [no date] : (H'ANA 0030) : from 2, Thistle Grove; begins, "You have the thanks of both your Sister and myself to accpet on the present occasion ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [no date] : (H'ANA 0031) : begins, "I hear with regret that you are poorly with a pain in your side ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday Evg." [no date] : (H'ANA 0029) : begins, "I thought I could have managed to have met you ..." · To Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1821 : (H'ANA 0004) : from Cold Bath Fields Prison; begins, "You will have the goodness to consider this letter as one of explanation, and in some measure of apology." · To William Whitton, Shelley's lawyer : 1 account table : [ca. 1824] : (S'ANA 0895) : listing the expenses incurred by the publishing firm of John & Henry L. Hunt in the suppression of their Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley; in an unknown hand, with the address to Whitton (on the verso) possibly in the hand of John Hunt. Tipped in to the front of of Pforzheimer Copy 1 of The Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelved as *Pforz 559L 08. The table is published in Roger Ingpen's Shelley in England (1917), p. 584.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7525757

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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J. and H.L. Hunt (Firm)

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Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Hunt, John, 1775-1848

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John Hunt, English printer and publisher. He was the brother of Leigh Hunt, the poet, journalist and literary critic. From the description of John Hunt manuscript material : 7 items, 1821-1837 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 435495270 ...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Whitton, William.

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