[10] Reprinted in Lady Shelley’s Memorials, p. 29.
[11] This and the next four pages have to be rewritten since the appearance of Professor Dowden’s Life. See Appendix.
[12] Leigh Hunt, Autob. p. 236, and Medwin, however, both assert that it was by mutual consent. The whole question must be studied in Peacock and in Garnett, Relics of Shelley, p. 147.
[13] See Letter to Godwin in Shelley Memorials, p. 78.
[14] Fraser’s Magazine, Jan., 1860, p. 98.
[15] Forman, iii. 148.
[16] Fraser, Jan., 1860, p. 102.
[17] How many copies were put in circulation is not known. There must certainly have been many more than the traditional three; for when I was a boy at Harrow, I picked up two uncut copies in boards at a Bristol bookshop, for the price of 2s. 6d. a piece.
[18] See Note on Poems of 1819, and compare the lyric “The billows on the beach.”
[19] Medwin’s Life of Shelley, vol. i. 324. His date, 1814, appears from the context to be a misprint.