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Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 21 August 1823
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Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Douglas Jerrold
Charles Dickens
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Albaro, August 21st, 1823.

Wilful Woman!—And so you have got a great, large,
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big Shacklewell house, and a garden, and good-natured trees in it (like those in my Choice)—
And Clarke and Mr. Holmes are seen
Peeping from forth their alleys green;
and you are looking after the “things,” and you are all to be gay and merry, and I am not to be there. Well, I don’t deserve it, whatever Fate may say, and it shall go hard but I’ll have my revenge, and my house, and my garden and things, all at Florence; and friends, fair and brown too, will come to see me there, though you won’t; and I’ll peep, without being seen, from forth my alleys green.

We go off to-morrow, and I shall send you such accounts as shall make you ready to ask Clara’s help (she being the bigger) to toss you all, as she threatened, “out of the windows.” There is nobody that will do it with so proper and grave a face. So there’s for your Shacklewell house and your never-not-coming-at-all to Italy. And now you shan’t get a word more out of me for the present, excepting that I am your old, grateful, and affectionate friend,

Leigh Hunt.

Mrs. Hunt joins in love to all the old circle.