Henry Leigh Hunt to William Hone, 12 December, 1820 An Electronic Edition Henry Leigh Hunt Kyle Grimes

For publication in the Hone Correspondence section of the William Hone BioText, http://honearchive.org. The letter is published under a Creative Commons license, details of which are accessible from the BioText homepage.

The copy text for the present transcription has been the electronic reproduction and facsimile of Hunt's letter which can be found in the Iowa Digital Library, shelfmark: MsL H93h, URL: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/leighhunt/id/716/rec/2.

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Henry Leigh Hunt to William Hone, 12 December, 1820.University of Iowa Digital Library, Leigh Hunt Letters, item: MsL H93h3. [external link] [return] — -TEI-
Examiner Office,
Tuesday, Dec. 12 Dear Sir, —

My fatherHenry Hunt's father was John Hunt, publisher and partner of The Examiner. Beginning in 1819, Henry Leigh Hunt had taken a leading role in the editorship of the weekly newspaper. John Hunt nonetheless remained active in radical/reformist publishing and activism and—as the present letter demonstrates—was repeatedly the target of government prosecution. [return] is now engaged in preparing his defence in the country, & "making out his Bill of Indictment", as he calls it, against the House of Commons. The more facts he can get the better therefore; & he thinks you can perhaps help him to the leading pamphlets expository of the various branches of state corruption, published within the last 40 or 50 years. I shall send a parcel to-morrow night, & it would oblige us much, if you would lend him for a short time what you can muster on the subject.

Yours very truly, Henry L. Hunt.

[Address:] Mr. William Hone, Ludgate Hill.