[7]. No name is given: should it be Shelley? Another Englishman who was in this locality towards the same date was Robert Southey.
[8]. I don't think there was any such stone-pelting in Geneva: it took place elsewhere in Switzerland.
[9]. The word written is perpanism, or possibly perhanism. Is there any such word, medical or other? Should it perchance be pyrrhonism?
[10]. The "ghost-story" which Polidori published was The Vampyre: see p. 128 as to his having begun in the first instance some different story.
[11]. Word obscurely written.
[12]. "Blind" appears to be the word written. It seems an odd expression—meaning, I suppose, "to blind (mislead or puzzle) the auditors."
[13]. This, again, is not clear to me: something in the nature of a game of forfeits may be indicated.
[14]. So written: should it be "Bingwen" or something of the kind?
[15]. The word "society" is perfectly clear in Charlotte Polidori's transcript. From the context, I question whether it ought not to be "Shakespear." As to "the criticism of Johnson" on Gray in the Lives of the Poets, many of my readers will recollect that this criticism is somewhat adverse, Gray being treated as a rather nebulous writer.
[16]. Seems rather an odd phrase, but I suppose correctly transcribed.