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27
. ibid., No. 35, p. 35.

28
. ibid., No. 30, p. 29.

29
. ibid., No. 34, p. 34.

30
. ibid., No. 36, p. 39.

31
. ibid., No. 39, p. 45.

32
. ibid., No. 38, p. 42.

33
. ibid.

34
. ibid., No. 42, p. 47.

35
. ibid., No. 45, p. 51.

36
. ibid., No. 48, p. 53.

37
. ibid., No. 39, p. 44.

38
.
Prose
, pp. 37–9. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 165.

39
. Percy Vaughan,
Early Shelley Pamphlets
, 1905, p. 17.

40
. Ingpen, op. cit., pp. 231–8.

41
.
Letters
, I, No. 48, p. 53.

42
. ibid., No. 47, p. 52.

43
.
Oxford University and City Herald
, 9 February 1811.

44
. ibid., 9 March 1811.

45
. ibid., 2 March 1811.

46
.
Letters
, I, No. 49, p. 54.

47
. Cameron, op. cit., p. 53.

48
.
Letters
, I, No. 49, p. 54.

49
. Peck,
Shelley: His Life and Work
, I, pp. 105–6.

50
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 169.

51
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 86.

52
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 168.

53
. C.J. Ridley, Junior Fellow of University College, quoted in Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, I, p. 124n.

54
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 169.

55
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 88.

56
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 171.

57
. Ridley in Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 124n.

58
. ibid.

59
.
Letters
, I, No. 56, p. 61.

60
. Joseph Gibbons Merle, ‘A Newspaper Editor’s Reminiscences’, in
Fraser’s Magazine
, June 1841, p. 704.

61
. ibid., p. 702.

62
.
Letters
, I, No. 50, pp. 55–6.

63
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 182.

64
. Merle, op. cit., p. 705.

65
. ibid., p. 706.

66
.
Letters
, I, No. 51, p. 57.

67
. ibid., No. 55, p. 57.

68
. ibid., No. 55, p. 60.

69
. ibid., n. 3.

70
. ibid., No. 57, p. 62.

71
. ibid., No. 60, p. 66, n1. Timothy’s letter continues: ‘The insulting, ungentlemanly letter to you appears the high-ton’d, self-willed dictate of the Diabolical Publications . . . . To cast off all thoughts of his Maker, to abandon his Parents, to wish to relinquish his Fortune and to court Persecution, all seem to arise from the same source . . . .’ It is printed in full in Ingpen, op. cit., pp. 253–4.

Chapter 3, Wales and Limbo: 1811

1
.
Letters
, I, No. 61, p. 67.

2
. ibid.

3
. ibid., No. 62, p. 70.

4
. ibid., No. 63, p. 71.

5
. ibid., No. 64, p. 74.

6
. ibid.

7
. ibid., No. 63, p. 73. See
The Esdaile Notebook
, edited by K. N. Cameron, 1964, p. 124. (Shelley collected his earliest poems 1809–13 in a marbled copybook, which is now known as the Esdaile Manuscript Notebook and is presently held by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, New York.)

8
.
Letters
, I, No. 66, pp. 76–7.

9
. ibid., No. 69, p. 82.

10
. ibid., p. 83.

11
. ibid., No. 66, p. 77.

12
. Edmund Blunden,
Shelley: A Life Story
, 1946, p. 65.

13
.
Letters
, I, No. 68, p. 82.

14
. ibid., No. 68, p. 81.

15
. ibid., No. 66, p. 77.

16
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 89.

17
. ibid., p. 90.

18
. Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, p. 516.

19
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 275 ff.

20
.
Letters
, I, No. 69, p. 83.

21
. ibid., No. 63, p. 71.

22
. ibid., No. 175, p. 274.

23
. ibid.

24
.
Peacock: Memoirs, Essays and Reviews
, p. 57.

25
.
Letters
, I, No. 67, p. 80.

26
. Merle,
Fraser’s Magazine
, June 1841, p. 707.

27
.
Letters
, I, No. 70, p. 84.

28
. ibid., No. 85, p. 107.

29
.
Esdaile
, p. 112. (See also
Poetical Works
, p. 842, with a maudlin title conferred by William Rossetti.)

30
.
Letters
, I, No. 85, p. 108.

31
. ibid., No. 80, p. 96.

32
. See F. L. Jones, ‘Hogg’s Peep at Elizabeth Shelley’,
Philological Quarterly
, XXIX, 1950, for a scholarly disquisition on this romantic tryst.

33
.
Letters
, I, No. 92, p. 118.

34
. ibid., No. 81, pp. 97–8.

35
. George Ensor,
On National Education
, 1811.

36
. BM. Add. MS. 37496.

37
. Miss Hitchener’s correspondence is also published in Professor Jones’s footnotes.
Letters
, I, No. 81, pp. 98–9 n. 5.

38
. ibid., No. 81, p. 98.

39
. ibid., No. 90, p. 116.

40
. ibid., No. 86, p. 110.

41
. ibid., No. 93, p. 119.

42
. ibid., No. 92, p. 118.

43
. ibid., No. 93, pp. 119–20.

44
. ibid., No. 93, p. 120.

45
. ibid., No. 101, p. 129.

46
.
Letters
, I, No. 92, p. 118.

47
. ibid., No. 95, p. 121.

48
. ibid., No. 98, p. 123.

49
. ibid.

50
. ibid., No. 99, p. 125.

51
. ibid., No. 99, p. 126.

52
. ibid., No. 107, p. 136.

53
. ibid., No. 101, p. 128.

54
. ibid., No. 96, p. 122.

55
. ibid., No. 100, p. 128.

56
. ibid., No. 106, p. 134.

57
. ibid., No. 114, p. 144.

58
. ibid., No. 103, p. 131.

59
. ibid., No. 105, p. 133.

60
. See the legal brief supplied by Shelley’s lawyer Wetherall, quoted in Dowden, op. cit., II, p. 83.

61
. Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 172.

62
. Blunden, op. cit., p. 69, taken from the Scottish marriage register.

63
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 253.

64
. ibid., p. 261.

65
. ibid., p. 258.

66
. ibid., p. 264.

67
.
Letters
, I, No. 118, p. 151.

68
. ibid., No. 110, p. 139.

69
. ibid., No. 108, p. 138 n. 5.

70
. ibid., No. 111, p. 140.

71
. ibid., No. 112, p. 142.

72
. ibid., No. 115, pp. 146–7.

73
. ibid., No. 116, p. 147.

74
. ibid., No. 117, p. 149.

75
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 271.

Chapter 4, Harriet Westbrook

1
.
Letters
, I, No. 114, pp. 144–5.

2
. Miss Hitchener in
Letters
, I, No. 114, p. 145 n. 2.

3
.
Letters
, I, No. 118, p. 149.

4
. ibid., No. 118, p. 151.

5
. ibid.

6
. ibid., No. 119, p. 152.

7
. John Hogg to Timothy Shelley, in
Letters
, I, No. 117, p. 148, n. 1.

8
.
Letters
, I, No. 130, p. 165.

9
. William Whitton to Sir Bysshe Shelley, in
Letters
, I, No. 130, p. 165 n. 1.

10
. Timothy Shelley in
Letters
, I, No. 130, p. 165 n. 3.

11
.
Letters
, I, No. 119, p. 152.

12
. ibid., No. 127, p. 158.

13
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 283.

14
.
Letters
, I, No. 139, p. 182.

15
. ibid.

16
. ibid., No. 133, p. 171.

17
. ibid., No. 140, p. 184.

18
. ibid., No. 132, pp. 168–9.

19
. ibid., No. 134, p. 172.

20
. Pforzheimer, III, pp. 46–7. Previously Hogg’s bowdlerized version has been printed in
Letters
, I, No. 137.

21
.
Letters
, I, No. 138, p. 181.

22
. ibid.

23
. ibid., No. 141, p. 186.

24
. ibid., No. 140, p. 185.

25
. ibid., No. 136, p. 175.

26
. ibid., No. 136, p. 176.

27
. Quoted in Howard Mills,
Peacock: His Circle and His Age
, 1969, p. 71. Mr Mills has succeeded in locating the interesting original of Hogg’s Floskyan distortion.

28
. Thomas de Quincey,
Complete Works
, 1862, Vol. V, p. 20.

29
. ibid., p. 10.

30
.
Letters
, I, No. 146, p. 198.

31
. ibid., No. 147, p. 199.

32
. ibid., No. 149, p. 203.

33
. ibid., No. 144, p. 196.

34
. ibid., No. 144, pp. 193–4

35
. ibid., No. 144, p. 196.

36
. E. P. Thompson,
The Making of the English Working Class
, p. 617. (I have used the revised (Penguin) edition of this magnificent social history, which provides the indispensable historical background to Shelley’s career in England.)

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