[269] See Hunt, Correspondence, I, p. 130.
[270] For Shelley’s desire for Hunt’s good opinion, see Works of Shelley, VIII, p. 167. Hunt’s collection of poems, published during 1818, under the title of Foliage was dedicated to Shelley: “Had I known a person more highly endowed than yourself with all the qualities that it becomes a man to possess, I had selected for this work the ornament of his name. One more gentle, honorable, innocent and brave; one of more exalted toleration of all who do and think evil; one who knows better how to receive, and how to confer a benefit though he must ever confer far more than he can receive; one of simpler, and in the highest sense of the word, of purer life and manners I never knew: and I had already been fortunate in friendships when your name was added to the list.”
[271] Correspondence, I, p. 153.
[272] Ibid., I, p. 154.
[273] Ibid., I, p. 179; March 26, 1822.
[274] In an article on the Suburbs of Genoa and the Country about London, pp. 118-119.
[275] Dated August 4, 1823.
[276] The second part of the sketch was in answer to the Quarterly Review’s attack on the Posthumous Poems, which Mrs. Shelley, aided by Hunt, had published in 1824. This account was reworked in 1850 for the Autobiography and was taken in part for the preface to an edition of Shelley’s works in 1871. Hunt wrote another biographical sketch of Shelley for S. C. Hall’s Book of Gems (p. 40). He gave a fine description of his physical appearance not often quoted.
[277] It was considered by the Athaneum to be the best part of the book, and to be the “powerful portrait of a benevolent man.” (VI, p. 70.)
[278] Letter to Ollier, February, 1858.