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52
. ibid., p. 260.

53
.
Letters
, II, No. 564, p. 193.

54
.
Claire
, p. 146.

55
.
Letters
, II, No. 568, p. 201.

56
. But this was almost undoubtedly the result of pressure put on her by Sir Timothy Shelley during the preparation of the official edition of the
Prose
(1840). It was omitted from the later editions of the 1880s and was first published in a small monograph,
A Philosophical View of Reform
, ed. T. W. Rolleston, 1920.

57
.
Letters
, II, No. 563, p. 191.

58
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 338ff, 571, 572, 573, 574.

59
.
Poetical Works
, p. 572–3.

60
.
Letters
, II, No. 563, p. 191.

61
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, p. 181.

62
. ibid., p. 167–97.

63
.
Letters
, II, No. 577, p. 216.

64
. ibid., No. 569, p. 201.

65
. ibid., No. 566, p. 196.

66
.
Mary
, No. 98, p. 112.

67
.
Letters
, II, No. 568, p. 200.

68
.
Claire
, p. 150 and p. 150 n. 2.

69
. ibid., p. 151.

70
.
Journal
, p. 134.

71
.
Mary
, No. 96, p. 108.

72
.
Letters
, II, No. 571, p. 207.

73
.
Poetical Works
, p. 369.

74
. ibid., p. 365.

75
.
Letters
, II, No. 571, p. 208.

76
. ibid., No. 573 and 574. p. 209.

77
.
Journal
, p. 135.

78
.
Claire
, pp. 153–4.

79
. ibid., p. 154.

80
. Byron to Hoppner, 22 April 1820,
Lord Byron: Selected Prose
, 1972, pp. 349–50.

81
.
Letters
, II, No. 567, pp. 198–9.

82
. ibid., No. 575, p. 210.

83
. Probably in Shelley’s letter to Peacock,
Letters
, II, No. 576, p. 213.

84
.
Claire
, p. 156.

85
.
Letters
, II, No. 576, p. 213.

86
. ibid., p. 214.

87
.
Claire
, pp. 156–7.

88
.
Letters
, II, No. 578, p. 218.

89
. ibid., No. 579, p. 221.

90
. ibid., No. 578, pp. 218–20.

91
. ibid., No. 580, p. 223.

Chapter 25, The Moons of Pisa: 1820

1
. H.R. Angeli,
Shelley and his Friends in Italy
, pp. 150–3.

2
.
Letters
, II, No. 580. p. 222.

3
.
Claire
, p. 168.

4
.
Letters
, II, No. 582, pp. 224–8.

5
. ibid., No. 582A, p. 229.

6
.
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters
, F. L. Jones (ed.), Monday 28 August 1820, pp. 47–8.

7
.
Poetical Works
, p. 383.

8
. ibid., p. 388.

9
. ibid., p. 371.

10
. J.O. Fuller,
Shelley
, Ch. 16, p. 323 n. 11.

11
. ibid.

12
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 379–80.

13
. ibid., p. 387.

14
. ibid., p. 386.

15
.
Letters
, II, No. 570, p. 204.

16
. ibid., p. 205 n. 3.

17
. ibid., No. 583, pp. 230–2.

18
. Southey to Shelley in
Letters
, II, No. 583, p. 232 n. 11.

19
.
Poetical Works
, p. 410.

20
.
Claire
, pp. 177–8.

21
.
Poetical Works
, p. 409.

22
. Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, p. 345.

23
.
Poetical Works
, p. 410; p. 908; and Wickwar,
The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press.

24
.
Poetical Works
, p. 727.

25
. ibid., p. 614.

26
. ibid., p. 621.

27
. ibid.

28
.
Letters
, II, No. 587, pp. 235–7.

29
. ibid., No. 588, p. 237.

30
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, pp. 259–61.

31
.
Letters
, II, No. 513, p. 117.

32
. ibid., II, No. 589, pp. 239–40.

33
. ibid., II, No. 589, pp. 239–40.

34
.
Claire
, p. 179.

35
.
Journal
, p. 139.

36
. Mary to Maria Gisborne, 16 October 1820, in
Studies in Philology
, LII, 1955.

37
.
Letters
, II, No. 575, p. 310.

38
.
Claire
, Appendix C, p. 470.

39
. ibid., p. 179.

40
. ibid., p. 179.

41
. ibid., p. 180.

42
. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 233–4.

43
. H.R. Angeli, op. cit., pp. 157–8.

44
.
Journal
, p. 140.

45
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 636.

Chapter 26, The Tuscan Set: 1821

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 591, p. 242.

2
.
Journal
, p. 140.

3
.
Poetical Works
, p. 564.

4
.
Letters
, II, No. 593, p. 246.

5
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, pp. 267–9.

6
. But I have not seen the holograph as it is one of those still restricted by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. It has therefore to be borne in mind that this letter may have suffered from editorial omissions. See Appendix to Chapter 18, ref. 1.

7
.
Letters
, II, No. 590, p. 241.

8
. ibid., No. 591, pp. 241–3.

9
. ibid., No. 592, p. 245.

10
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 238.

11
. ibid., p. 249.

12
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 623–4.

13
. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 250–1.

14
.
Letters
, II, No. 395, p. 249.

15
.
Claire
, p. 184.

16
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 169.

17
.
Journal
, p. 141.

18
.
Claire
, p. 187.

19
. For Professor Pacchiani, see Medwin, op. cit., pp. 273–8;
Mary
, No. 101, p. 117; and
Claire
, p. 188 n. 65.

20
.
Claire
, Appendix C, p. 472.

21
. Marchand,
Byron: A Biography
, II, p. 844.

22
.
Mary
, No. 101, p. 117.

23
.
Letters
, II, No. 599, p. 254 n. 1.

24
.
Mary
, No. 101, p. 118.

25
.
Journal
, pp. 141–2.

26
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 279.

27
.
Claire
, p. 196. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 269–70.

28
.
Claire
, p. 196.

29
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 9.

30
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 270.

31
.
Claire
, p. 198.

32
.
Mary
, No. 107, p. 123.

33
. ibid., No. 108, p. 126.

34
.
Claire
, p. 195.

35
.
Mary
, No. 109, p. 127.

36
. ibid., No. 109, p. 129.

37
.
Letters
, II, No. 599, pp. 254–5.

38
.
Poetical Work
, p. 638.

39
. Manuscript Notebook ‘Bixby Huntington I’, given by H. B. Forman in an annotation of Medwin, op. cit., p. 281.

40
.
Letters
, II, Appendix I, pp. 447–9. These Italian letter fragments were first discovered among the Bod. MSS and printed by Neville Rogers,
Shelley at Work
, 1956.

41
. See Maria Viviani della Rovvia,
Vita di Una Donna; l’Emily di Shelley
, Florence, 1936.

42
. ibid., p. 84.

43
. ibid., pp. 87–8.

44
.
Mary
, No. 109, p. 129.

45
. ibid., No. 110, p. 133.

46
. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 283–4.

47
.
Letters
, II, No. 601, p. 256.

48
. ibid.

49
. ibid.

50
.
Poetical Works
, p. 420.

51
.
Poetical Works
, p. 423.

52
. ibid., p. 427.

53
. ibid., p. 417.

54
. ibid., p. 428.

55
. ibid., p. 415.

56
. ibid., pp. 424–5.

57
. ibid., p. 425.

58
. ibid., p. 411.

59
. ibid., p. 418.

60
. ibid., p. 419.

61
.
Mary
, No. 135, p. 161.

62
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 419–20.

63
. ibid., p. 417

64
. Thornton Hunt, article in
Atlantic Monthly
, February 1863.

65
.
Poetical Works
, p. 105.

66
.
Letters
, II, No. 606, p. 263.

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