About the Project

Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters will ultimately digitally present all surviving correspondence of Romantic poet, writer, and editor Leigh Hunt (1784-1859).

The project has several phases. The first, which is currently underway, brings together digitally the 1,600 letters in the Brewer-Hunt Collection and previous cataloging at Iowa with unpublished transcripts made by David R. Cheney and held by The University of Toledo Libraries.

The second phase will add information collected by Cheney about letters in other repositories and published in other, incomplete, editions of Hunt’s letters. Phase three will secure and add scans and transcripts of as many of the letters identified in phase two as it is possible to obtain. Phases two and three will require the widespread cooperation of libraries and scholars of the Romantic period.

Who is Leigh Hunt? - brief introduction to Leigh Hunt

Cheney's Transcriptions - his proposed introduction, editorial principles, and bibliography of sources used in the transcriptions, along with a brief biographical sketch of David R. Cheney

History of the Project

Methodology and Standards