[229] (a) The Examiner, January 26, 1817. (b) Ibid., February 12, 1817. (c) Ibid., August 31, 1817. (d) Hunt, Correspondence, I, p. 114; August 27, 1817.
[230] Shelley said of Horace Smith: “but is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.” (Hunt, Autobiography, I, p. 211.) See also Letter to Maria Gisborne, ll. 247-253; Forman, Works of Shelley, III, p. 225 ff.
[231] Works of Shelley, VIII, p. 3; March 22, 1818.
[232] Works of Shelley, VIII, p. 141; November 13, 1819.
[233] Professor Masson says that one of Shelley’s first acts was to offer Hunt £100. It is probable he refers to the occasion already discussed. (Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Other Essays, p. 112.)
[234] Dowden, Life of Shelley, II, p. 61.
[235] Nicoll and Wise, Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century, p. 331; December 8, 1816.
[236] Ibid., p. 336; August 16, 1817.
[237] Rogers, Table Talk, p. 236.
[238] Hunt, Correspondence, I, p. 146; September 12, 1819.