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dc.creatorHunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-05T19:22:14Z
dc.date.available2014-11-05T19:22:14Z
dc.date.issued1822-07-23
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/6129
dc.descriptionAutograph letter written by Leigh Hunt to John Gisborne. Written from Pisa [Italy]. Transcriptions included. *return address is cut off due to the method in which the letter is preserved.
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dc.format.medium1 page, double sheet, 25 x 19 cm
dc.relationWilliam Luther Lewis Collection
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any photograph.
dc.sourceFF-B2, Housed in a blue buckram box labeled "Autograph Letters"; 462-3
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dc.subjectLetters
dc.subjectAutographs
dc.titleLetter from Leigh Hunt to John Gisborne
dc.typeImage
dc.identifier.digitool97635en_US
dc.date.captured2012-04-02
dc.description.transcriptionPisa—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. [flourish]


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