ABSTRACT
The Shelley's and Claire started for England on August 28 and reached Portsmouth on September 9. In May, 1816, Shelley, Mary, and Claire started for Geneva. In June they made a voyage round the lake, in the course of which Byron wrote the "Prisoner of Chillon". Shelley was not yet the myth-maker he afterwards became, when clouds and sun and wind and stars were living things to him, and he could write of them as other poets write of men and women. William Morris said, rather hastily, that Shelley had no eyes. Thence Shelley went to London to do business and find a house in the country, and Mary went with her children and Claire to Bath. Eliza Westbrook in an affidavit referred to letter which Shelley wrote to her after Harriet's death in which he spoke of Mary as the lady whose union with him. Eliza might excusably regard, as the cause of her sister's ruin.
