Letter (copy) from Leigh Hunt to Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

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{"value"=>"31 December [1856- 14 January 1857]", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1856-12-31/1857-01-14", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
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{"value"=>"<p>From Hammersmith; possibly in the hand of Hunt's grandson, Colonel S. Leigh Hunt; a lengthy and meandering letter mostly providing criticism on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's recently published poetry, particularly <em>Poems</em> (1856) and <em>Aurora Leigh</em> (1857). Also mentions John Keats's poem \"Endymion\" (1818), Alfred Tennyson's <em>Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington</em> (1852), William Wordsworth's <em>The Prelude</em>, and a lock of John Milton's hair.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"The Brownings' Correspondence: An Online Edition, letter 3949"}
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1856-12-31
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1856-12-31
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1857-01-14
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