Shelley: The Pursuit (159 page)

37
. ibid., p. 592.

38
.
Letters
, I, No. 148, p. 200.

39
. ibid., No. 148, p. 201.

40
. ibid., No. 148, p. 202.

41
.
Letters
, I, No. 155, p. 213.

42
. ibid., No. 155, p. 214.

43
. The letter of 4 January 1812 to Grosvenor Bedford:
Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey
, ed. C.C. Southey, 1850, III, p. 325.

44
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 291.

45
.
Letters
, I, No. 155, pp. 210–12.

46
. Mary Moorman,
William Wordsworth; A biography
, 2 vols, II, p. 239, 1965.

47
.
Letters
, I, No. 156, p. 215.

48
.
Letters
, I, No. 156, p. 219 n. 10.

49
.
Letters
, I, No. 156, p. 216.

50
. ibid., No. 161, p. 233.

51
. ibid., No. 160, p. 231.

52
. ibid., No. 156, p. 218.

53
. ibid., No. 157, pp. 219–21.

54
. ibid., No. 159, pp. 221–8.

55
. That is to say:
Letters
, I, No. 24, p. 21 (19 November 1810); No. 30, p. 27 (20 December 1810); and No. 41, p. 47 (16 January 1811).

56
. See Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, pp. 307–8.

57
.
Letters
, I, No. 160, p. 230.

58
. ibid.

59
. ibid.

60
. ibid., No. 160, p. 231.

61
. ibid.

62
. Cameron,
Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical
, p. 142. For a careful examination of Shelley’s lively plagiarisms, see Peck,
Shelley: His Life and Work
, II, pp. 341–3.

63
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 878–9.

64
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, p. 40.

65
.
Letters
, I, No. 158, p. 223.

66
. ibid., No. 161, p. 234.

67
.
Esdaile
, p. 154.

68
. ibid., p. 63.

69
.
Letters
, I, No. 163, p. 243.

70
. ibid., No. 150, p. 204.

71
. ibid., No. 151, p. 205.

72
. ibid., No. 152, pp. 205–6.

73
. ibid., No. 152, p. 206.

74
. ibid., No. 161, p. 232.

75
. ibid., No. 162, p. 239.

76
.
Cumberland Pacquet
, 28 January 1812, from the Carlisle Public Library Archive. Note: from Dowden down to Professor Jones’s edition of
Letters
, this date had been consistently given as 28 January 1811. This error now stands corrected.

77
.
Letters
, I, No. 162, p. 240.

78
. ibid., No. 162, p. 240.

79
. ibid., No. 162, p. 241.

80
. ibid.

81
. ibid., No. 164, p. 244.

82
. ibid., No. 162, p. 240.

83
. ibid., No. 162, p. 241.

84
. ibid., No. 167, p. 252.

85
.
Esdaile
, p. 43.

86
.
Letters
, I, No. 164, p. 247.

87
. ibid., No. 164, p. 246.

88
. ibid., No. 164, p. 248.

89
. ibid., No. 165, p. 249.

90
. ibid., No. 165, p. 248.

91
. ibid., No. 165, p. 249.

Chapter 5, Irish Revolutionaries: 1812

1
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, p. 203 n. 2.

2
. ibid., p. 71.

3
.
Letters
, I, No. 167, p. 255.

4
. ibid., No. 168, p. 256.

5
. ibid., No. 170, p. 258.

6
. ibid., No. 172, p. 65. (Here, as elsewhere, Harriet has shared the letter to Miss Hitchener with Shelley.)

7
.
Prose
, p. 39.

8
.
Letters
, I, No. 172, p. 263.

9
.
Prose
, p. 51.

10
. ibid., p. 49.

11
.
Letters
, I, No. 162, p. 239.

12
.
Prose
, p. 55.

13
. ibid.

14
. William Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 173, p. 269 n. 6. The text of this letter comes from Hogg, op. cit.

15
. William Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 170, p. 260, n. 8. An incomplete text, also from Hogg, op. cit.

16
.
Letters
, I, No. 173, p. 267.

17
.
Letters
, I, No. 172, pp. 264–5.

18
. Denis Florence Mac Carthy,
Shelley’s Early Life: From Original Sources
, London 1870, pp. 238–41. Mac Carthy was the first writer to examine Shelley’s exploits in Dublin with any care. The two English agents were Michael Farrell, a ‘chief constable’, and Thomas Manning, who ‘held an inferior position’.

19
.
Letters
, I, No. 175, p. 275.

20
. ibid., No. 172, p. 264.

21
. ibid.

22
. ibid., No. 173, p. 268.

23
. ibid., No. 174, p. 271.

24
. ibid.

25
. Harriet Shelley in
Letters
, I, No. 176, p. 279 n. 5. The text comes from Mac Carthy, op. cit.

26
. ibid., No. 178, p. 283 n. 8. (Harriet Shelley’s letters were first collected in the Julian Edition,
The Complete Works of Shelley
, ed. Ingpen and Peck, 10 vols, 1926–30. However, Harriet’s letters are also given in full by F. L. Jones in his footnotes to
Letters
, I, and since these are the most easily accessible to the general reader, I have listed my references accordingly.)

27
.
Letters
, I, No. 175, p. 275.

28
. Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 173, pp. 269–70, n. 6.

29
.
Prose
, p. 62.

30
.
Letters
, I, No. 176, pp. 276–7.

31
. ibid., No. 176, p. 278.

32
. ibid., No. 177, p. 280.

33
.
Letters
, I, No. 178, p. 282.

34
. ibid., No. 176, p. 279 n. 5.

35
. ibid., No. 172, p. 264.

Chapter 6, A Radical Commune

1
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 178, p. 284 n. 8.

2
. ibid., p. 281.

3
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, p. 105.

4
.
Letters
, I, No. 190, p. 301.

5
. ibid., No. 181, p. 287.

6
. ibid., No. 190, p. 301.

7
. ibid., No. 187, p. 296.

8
. ibid., No. 178, p. 282.

9
. ibid., No. 187, p. 297.

10
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 192, p. 305 n. 1.

11
.
Letters
, I, No. 181, p. 287.

12
. ibid., No. 178, p. 283.

13
. ibid., No. 180, p. 285.

14
. ibid., No. 192, p. 305 n. 1.

15
. Mac Carthy,
Shelley’s Early Life
, p. 310.

16
. ibid., p. 321.

17
. ibid., p. 313.

18
.
Prose
, pp. 70–2.

19
.
Letters
, I, No. 178, p. 281.

20
. ibid., No. 190, p. 302.

21
. ibid., No. 186, p. 295.

22
. ibid., No. 182, p. 288.

23
. ibid., No. 184, pp. 290–1.

24
. ibid., No. 185, p. 292.

25
. ibid., No. 186, p. 294.

26
. ibid., No. 186, pp. 294–5.

27
. ibid., No. 186, p. 296.

28
. Medwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 188a n. 1.

29
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 192, p. 305 n. 1.

30
.
Letters
, I, No. 191, pp. 302–3.

31
. ibid., No. 192, p. 304.

32
.
Letters
, I, No. 193, p. 306.

33
.
Examiner
, 31 May 1812.

34
.
Letters
, I, No. 194, p. 307.

35
. ibid., No. 195, p. 308.

36
. ibid., No. 195, p. 309.

37
. ibid., No. 196, p. 311.

38
. Harriet Shelley to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 195, pp. 309–10 n. 2.

39
. The Home Office papers and policing instructions were first examined and published in full by William Rossetti in the
Fortnightly Review
, January 1871, p. 79.

40
.
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 319.

41
. ibid., No. 196, p. 311.

42
. Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 197, p. 313 n. 1.

43
. Rossetti, op. cit., p. 78.

44
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 321 no. 6.

45
. Rossetti, op. cit., p. 79.

46
.
Esdaile
, p. 89.

47
.
Letters
, I, No. 197, p. 314.

48
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 320 n. 6.

49
.
Letters
, I, No. 198, p. 318.

50
.
Letters
, II, No. 501, p. 99. To Peacock, June 1819.

51
.
Letters
, I, No. 198, p. 316.

52
. ibid., No. 198, p. 318.

53
. ibid., No. 199, p. 319.

54
. ibid., No. 201, p. 323.

55
. ibid.

56
.
Prose
, p. 74.

57
. T.B. Howell,
A Complete Collection of State Trials
, 1823, XXI, pp. 928–9.