Recollections of Writers
Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 27 September [1844?]
Kensington, September 27th.
Cara Vittoria mia,—I address this to you, because
I conclude it is more likely to find you at home, and because being so much of a
one-ness with your husband I suppose you could act for
him as well as if he were on the spot, and send me the little book I ask for in
case he happens to possess a copy. It is the Literary Pocket-book (if you remember such a thing)
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poor Beau Brummel, under the title of “Brummelliana.” A gentleman who is
writing a life of him has sent to me to borrow it, and my own copy has disappeared.
I need not say, that I should stipulate with the gentleman to take every care of
it, and that at all events I would become personally responsible for its return.
And so with best blessings to both of you (for tho’ not a Papist I am
Catholic in all benedictory articles) I am ever, dear Victoria,
Your and his faithful friend,
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
English poet, journalist, and man of letters; editor of
The
Examiner and
The Liberal; friend of Byron, Keats, and
Shelley.
Mary Sabilla Novello [née Hehl] (1789-1854)
English author who married Vincent Novello in 1808 and had a family of eleven children,
among them Mary Cowden Clarke.
