| dc.description.transcription | Pisa—23 July 1822.
Dear Sir,
You will have heard by this time, the dreadful news which still seems ringing here in all ears, --the loss of Mr. Shelley & his friend Capt. Williams in their boat off Villa Reggia. What you will have felt on hearing it, I am sure I know; & by this you will judge of what we all feel, --except indeed the women, whose anguish must have surpassed conception. They are better, but still suffering piteously.
I have been writing, at Mrs. Shelley’s request, to Hogg & Peacock respecting Mr. [deleted] Shelley’s will, & some alterations he afterwards made in it. Mrs. S. thinks she recollects that a correspondence [indecipherable word deleted] passed between you & him respecting it, & that you may be able to furnish some information to Hogg & Peacock, who are requested to apply to you accordingly. Mrs. S. is now searching among her husband’s papers for the altered will; but it has struck her, that perhaps he consigned it to you, when you left Italy.
Mrs. Hunt, who sends her best remembrances with mine to Mrs. Gisborne & yourself, is better; & was still better, till this common calamity of all kind hearts occurred.
Yours, my dear Sir, very truly,
Leigh Hunt.
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