Recollections of Writers
Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 17 February [1844?]
Kensington, February 17th.
Vittoria mia,—(For you know I
always claim a little bit of right in you, Caroli gratiâ)
I think I have repeated the remark you speak of more than once, and yet I cannot
remember anything more like it at present than in some passages in the accompanying
“Recollections of a dead body” in the Monthly Repository, pages 218, 219; which book I
accordingly send you. I still think, however, there must be a passage somewhere
else, and I will look for it, and if I find it, send it off directly. With love to
dear Clarke, Believe me, ever affectionately
yours,
Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877)
The schoolmate and friend of John Keats; he lectured on Shakespeare and European
literature and published
Recollections of Writers (1878).
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.
The Monthly Repository. (1806-1838). Continued for three decades under various titles; Leigh Hunt was editor in
1837-38.
