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20
.
Letters
, II, No. 672, pp. 367–8, and 674.

21
. ibid., No. 672, pp. 367–8.

22
. ibid., No. 674, p. 371.

23
. ibid., p. 370.

24
. Williams, op. cit., p. 123.

25
.
Letters
, II, No. 676, p. 373. Williams, op. cit., p. 123.

26
.
Letters
, II, No. 677, p. 376.

27
.
Poetical Works
, p. 753.

28
.
Letters
, II, No. 697, p. 407.

29
.
Poetical Works
, p. 758.

30
. ibid., p. 761.

31
.
Letters
, II, No. 697, p. 406.

32
. ibid., No. 692, p. 401.

33
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 325, who says it was ��1,400; but there is no real evidence that such a large sum was involved. Medwin was inclined to muddle these things.

34
.
Letters
, II, No. 678, p. 379.

35
. Williams, op. cit., p. 126.

36
.
Journal
, p. 165.

37
. Trelawny, op. cit., p. 173.

38
. ibid., p. 172.

39
. ibid., p. 187.

40
. Williams, op. cit., p. 125.

41
.
Mary
, No. 132, pp. 155–6.

42
. ibid.

43
. Williams, op. cit., p. 131.

44
.
Mary
, No. 132, p. 156.

45
.
Letters
, II, No. 677, p. 375.

46
. ibid., No. 683, pp. 387–8.

47
.
Letters
, II, No. 681, pp. 384–6; and compare
Poetical Works
, p. 644.

48
. Williams, op. cit., p. 127.

49
. ibid., p. 128 n. 87.

50
.
Poetical Works
, p. 671.

51
.
Letters
, II, No. 678, p. 378; and 692, p. 400.

52
. ibid., No. 682, p. 386.

53
.
Claire
, p. 274.

54
. BM. Ashley 4752.

55
.
Mary
, No. 133, p. 157.

56
.
Claire
, pp. 279–84.

57
. Williams, op. cit., p. 133.

58
.
Letters
, II, No. 687, pp. 391–2.

59
. ibid., No. 689, p. 394.

60
. ibid.

61
. Williams, op. cit., p. 135.

62
. ibid.

63
.
Poetical Works
, p. 486.

64
.
Letters
, II, No. 689, p. 394.

65
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 506���7.

66
.
Mary
, No. 136, p. 162.

67
. ibid.

68
. Captain Hay reported in Williams, op. cit., p. 138.

69
. Williams, op. cit., p. 138.

70
.
Mary
, No. 136, p. 162.

71
. Evidence of the eyewitness Mr Crawfurd in Williams, op. cit., p. 139.

72
. Williams, op. cit., p. 137.

73
. ibid., p. 138.

74
.
Letters
, II, Appendix 5, No. 2.

75
.
Mary
, No. 121, p. 141.

76
.
Letters
, II, No. 691, p. 399.

77
. ibid., No. 695, p. 403.

78
. ibid., No. 692, p. 400.

79
. ibid.

80
. ibid., No. 696, p. 404.

81
. Williams, op. cit., p. 144.

82
. ibid.

83
.
Letters
, II, No. 697, pp. 408–9.

84
. ibid., No. 698, p. 411.

85
. ibid., No. 699, p. 412.

86
. ibid., No. 696, p. 405.

Chapter 29, The Gulf of Spezia

1
. Williams, in
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters
, p. 145.

2
. ibid.

3
.
Letters
, II, No. 701, p. 414.

4
. Williams, op. cit., p. 145.

5
.
Mary
, No. 139, p. 169.

6
.
Letters
, II, No. 701, p. 413.

7
. Williams, op. cit., p. 146.

8
. ibid.

9
.
Letters
, II, No. 703, p. 416.

10
. ibid.

11
. Williams, op. cit., p. 149.

12
. ibid., p. 147.

13
. ibid.

14
.
Letters
, II, No. 705, p. 419.

15
. Williams, op. cit., p. 149.

16
.
Letters
, II, No. 707, p. 421.

17
.
Mary
, No. 139, p. 171.

18
.
Letters
, II, No. 708, p. 423.

19
. ibid., p. 425 n. 3.

20
.
Letters
, II, No. 711, p. 430.

21
. ibid., No. 709, p. 427.

22
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. C. 4, F5.

23
.
Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life
’, ed. Donald H. Reiman, University of Illinois Press, 1965, p. 160; compare
Poetical Works
, pp. 511–12.

24
. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 138–40; compare
Poetical Works
, p. 508.

25
. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 150–8; compare
Poetical Works
, pp. 510–11. Third and ninth stanzas from
Posthumous Poems
(1824).

26
. Reiman, op. cit., p. 164; compare
Poetical Works
, p. 512.

27
. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 191–2; compare
Poetical Works
, p. 517.

28
. Reiman, op. cit., pp. 206–10; compare
Poetical Works
, pp. 519–20. Punctuation of last thirteen lines from
Posthumous Poems
(1824).

29
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. c. 4. F5, p. 52. This reading was first identified by G. M. Matthews in ‘The Triumph of Life: A New Text’,
Studia Neophilologica
, XXXII, 1960.

30
.
Letters
, II, No. 710, p. 429.

31
.
Mary
, No. 144, p. 179.

32
. ibid., p. 179.

33
.
Letters
, II, No. 715, p. 434.

34
.
Mary
, No. 144, p. 181.

35
.
Letters
, II, No. 714, p. 433.

36
. ibid., No. 715, pp. 435–6.

37
. ibid., No. 715A, p. 437.

38
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. C. 4. Folder 35–6.
Poetical Works
, p. 674.

39
.
Mary
, No. 144, p. 181.

40
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 18.

41
. ibid., p. 118 rev.

42
. ibid., p. 160 rev.

43
. Williams, op. cit., p. 155.

44
. ibid.

45
.
Mary
, No. 144, p. 180.

46
.
Letters
, II, No. 718, p. 440.

47
.
Mary
, No. 144, p. 180.

48
. Williams, op. cit., p. 155.

49
. MS in Keats Shelley Memorial Association Collection, Rome.
Letters
, II, No. 719, pp. 442–3.

50
. Williams, op. cit., p. 156.

51
.
Mary
, No. 140, p. 172.

52
.
Letters
, II, No. 720, p. 444.

53
. Williams, op. cit., p. 162.

54
.
Letters
, II, No. 720, p. 444.

55
. ibid., No. 721, p. 445.

56
. A report given to Taaffe and retold in conversation:
The Journal of Clarissa Trant
(1925), pp. 198–9, dating from 1826. There were, inevitably, numerous subsequent versions of the sinking which already had achieved a kind of mythic significance even before it occurred. The variations are discussed in the letters of Mary, Trelawny, Captain Roberts and in Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, pp. 534–6. The main point of contention lies in whether the damage to the mainmasts and stern timbers was caused by manhandling during the salvage operation or by collision with a
felucca
. But Mary’s original letter to Maria Gisborne of 15 August 1822 underwrites Taaffe’s account: ‘A Fishing boat saw them go down — It was about 4 in the afternoon — they saw the boy at mast head when baffling winds struck the sails they had looked away a moment & looking again the boat was gone.’

Index

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Aberystwyth,
75
,
76
,
133–4

Academical Questions
, Sir William Drummond,
298
& n.

Act of Union (Ireland),
120
,
123
,
125

Adeline Mowbray, or the Mother and Daughter
, Amelia Opie,
76

Adolphus, John,
274

The Adventures of a Younger Son
, E. J. Trelawny,
731

Aeschylus,
182
,
267
,
297
,
302
,
311
,
415
,
444
,
491
,
494
,
495
,
496
,
497
,
499
,
500
,
505
,
677

Agathon,
430
,
435
,
436

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