About the Project
Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters will ultimately present digitally 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brings together digitally the 1,600 letters in the Brewer-Hunt Collection and previous cataloging at Iowa with unpublished transcripts made by David R. Cheney and held by The University of Toledo Libraries. We have also begun adding transcripts by other scholars to the database, including work from Eleanore M. Gates, author of Leigh Hunt: A Life in Letters and Brent Kinser of the Carlyle Letters Online Project. Further contributors will be welcomed in the future.
The second phase will add information collected by Cheney about letters in other repositories and published in other, incomplete, editions of Hunt’s letters. We have already begun to make preliminary contact with a few other institutions and soon expect to begin adding images from other libraries to the collection. Following completion of phase I of the project, we will begin more intensive efforts to 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
