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Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 13 November 1824
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Contents
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
Index
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Florence, November 13th, 1824.

Oh, Wilful!—Am I to expect another birthday letter? If so (but two such birthdays can hardly come together), I will do my best to be grateful, and send you a mirth-day letter. Do you know that however differently-shaped you may regard yourself at present at Shacklewell, here at Florence you are a square? and that I am writing at present in one of your second stories at Mrs. Brown’s lodgings, who can only find me this half-sheet of paper to write upon? I should have thought better of you, considering you have the literary interest so much at heart. Your name is Sancta Maria Novella, and there is a church in a corner of you, which makes a figure in the opening of Boccaccio’sDecameron.” So adieu, dear Sancta.—Ever yours, sick or merry,

L. H.