Symonds, John Addington. Shelley. (English Men of Letters.) London and New York, 1902. Footnotes: [1] _Autobiography of Leigh Hunt_, I, p. 34. [2] _Correspondence of Leigh Hunt_, I, p. 332. [3] _Autobiography_, I, p. 93. Compare the above quotation with Shelley's description of his first friendship. (Hogg, _Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley_, pp. 23-24.) [4] This early passion for friendship, which developed into a power of attracting men vastly more gifted than himself, brought about him besides Byron, Shelley and Keats, such men as Charles Lamb, Robert Browning, Carlyle, Dickens, Horace and James Smith, Charles Cowden Clarke, Vincent Novello, William Godwin, Macaulay, Thackeray, Lord Brougham, Bentham, Haydon, Hazlitt, R. H. Horne, Sir John Swinburne, Lord John Russell, Bulwer Lytton, Thomas Moore, Barry Cornwall, Theodore Hook, J. Egerton Webbe, Thomas Campbell, the Olliers, Joseph Severn, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs. Browning and Macvey Napier. Hawthorne, Emerson, James Russel Lowell and William Story sought him out when they were in London. [5] _Correspondence_, I, p. 49. [6] _Ibid._, I, p. 44. [7] _Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore_, ed. Basil Champney, I, p. 32. [8] _Life, Letters and Table Talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon_, ed. by Stoddard, p. 232. [9] _Correspondence_, I, p. 272. [10] On once being accused of speculation Hunt replied that he had never been "in a market of any kind but to buy an apple or a flower." (_Atlantic Monthly_, LIV, p. 470.) Nor did Hunt admire money-getting propensities in others. He said of Americans: "they know nothing so beautiful as the ledger, no picture so lively as the national coin, no music so animating as the chink of a purse." (_The Examiner_, 1808, p. 721.) [11] Dickens did Hunt an irreparable injury in caricaturing him as Harold Skimpole. The character bore such an unmistakable likeness to Hunt that it was recognized by every one who knew him, yet the weaknesses and vices were greatly multiplied and exaggerated. Before the appearance of _Bleak House_, Dickens wrote Hunt in a letter which accompanied the presentation copies of _Oliver Twist_ and the New American edition of the _Pickwick Papers_: "You are an old stager in works, but a young one in faith--faith in all beautiful and excellent things. If you can only find in that green heart of yours to tell me one of these days, that you have met, in wading through the accompanying trifles, with anything that felt like a vibration of the old chord you have touched so often and sounded so well, you will confer the truest gratification on your old friend, Charles Dickens." (_Littell's Living Age_, CXCIV, p. 134.)