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HUNT, Leigh (1784-1859). Autograph letter signed to [Richard Monckton] Milnes, Kensington, 28 February n.y. , written in reply to a request for autographs, offering to show him the MS. of Keats's Hyperion , 'Ought I to cut up that, or rather cut into it, for autographs to the select? I have been sometimes tempted to do so, & now feel tempted again. I had designed to deposit in the Museum', offering to look through his papers, 'I will have a particular eye to your request while doing so' and lamenting the fact that he had 'but two of Shelley's signatures and a single one of Keats's remaining', offering Milnes 'a collection of locks of hair', and thanking him for the kind message of a bishop whose acquaintance Hunt says he is priviledged to accept, 4 pages, 16mo . The autograph manuscript of Hyperion is in the British Library.