“I enclose you a letter from Leigh Hunt, which annoys me on more than one account. You will
observe the P.S., and you know me well enough to feel how painful the task is
set me in commenting upon it. Hunt has urged me more than
once to lend him this money. My answer consisted in sending him all I could
spare, which I have now literally done. Your kindness in fitting up a part of
your rooms for his accommodation, I sensibly feel, and willingly accepted from
you on his part; but believe me, without the slightest intention of imposing,
or, if I could help it, allowing to be imposed, any heavier task on your purse.
As it has come to this, in spite of my exertions, I will not conceal from you
the low ebb of my own money affairs, at the pre-
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“I do not think poor Hunt’s promise to pay in a given time is worth much; but mine is less subject to uncertainty, and I should be happy to be responsible for any engagement he may have proposed to you. I am so much annoyed by this subject, that I hardly know what to write, and much less what to say; and I have need of all your indulgence in judging of both my feelings and expressions.
