CHAPTER XXIII

OCTOBER 1831-OCTOBER 1839

Godwin's _Thoughts on Man_ (1830)--Letter to Mary--Letter from Clare--Question of Percy's going to a public school.

1831. Mary Shelley applies to Sir Timothy for an increase of allowance--She is refused.

1832. Letter from Godwin asking for an idea or suggestion-- Mary writes "Lives of Italian and Spanish Literary Men" for Lardner's _Cyclopædia_--Clare's tale--Cholera in London-- Mary goes to Sandgate--Trelawny returns--His daughter stays with Mary at Sandgate--Death of Lord Dillon--Letter from Godwin--His son William dies of cholera--Posthumous novel, _Transfusion_--Clare's letters to Jane and Mary.

1833. Mrs. Shelley goes to live at Harrow--Letter to Mrs. Gisborne--Influenza--Solitude--Hard work--Letter from 1834 Godwin--Letters from Mary to Trelawny and to Mrs. Gisborne--Offer of £600 for annotated edition of Shelley's works--Difficulties.

1835. _Lodore_--Its success--Reminiscences of her own experiences--Letter from Clare--Melancholy letter from Mary to Mrs. Gisborne--"A Dirge"--Trelawny returns from America-- Mary's friendship with Mrs. Norton--Letter to Mrs. Gisborne--Godwin's 1836 death--Efforts to get an annuity for his widow--Letters from Mrs. Norton and Trelawny.

1837. Letters from Mary to Trelawny--Death of the Gisbornes-- Impediments to Mary's undertaking the biography of her father--Her edition of Shelley's works--Painful task.

1839. Letter from Sir E. L. Bulwer--Fragment from Mrs. Norton--The Diplomatic Service--Journal--Bitter Vexations-- Illness--Recovery 233-291