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- ↑ Weekly True Son (microform), Australian National Library
- ↑ Nord, Deborah Epstein (1995). "Leigh Hunt's Townsman essays". Walking the Victorian Streets . Cornell University Press. pp. 56–57.
- ↑ Hunt, Leigh - Regent's Park and Primrose Hill in Literature and Music
- ↑ The Statesman, or, The Weekly True Sun (microform), Australian National Library
- ↑ The British Queen and Statesman (microform), Australian National Library
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