With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . ; but the chances are now so much dimin-ished of finding you that I will not run the risk of thedelay of seeing you that would be caused by our missingeach other on the way. I shall therefore set off for Leg-horn the moment that I hear you have sailed. We nowinhabit a white house, with arches, near the town of Lerici,in the Gulf of Spezia. The Williamses are with is one of the best fellows in the world; andJane, his wife, a most deli
With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . ; but the chances are now so much dimin-ished of finding you that I will not run the risk of thedelay of seeing you that would be caused by our missingeach other on the way. I shall therefore set off for Leg-horn the moment that I hear you have sailed. We nowinhabit a white house, with arches, near the town of Lerici,in the Gulf of Spezia. The Williamses are with is one of the best fellows in the world; andJane, his wife, a most delightful person, whom we allagree is the exact antitype of the lady I described in TheSensitive Plant, though this must have been a pure antici-pated cognition, as it was written a year before I knew wish you need not pass Lerici, which I fear you will do;cast your eye on the white house and think of us. A thousand welcomes, my best friend, to this divinecountry; high mountains and seas no longer divide thosewhose affections are united. . Give me the earliest in-telligence of your motions. [278 ] [7F,Xrs ANADVOMKNE.* III rtlizi See p. 285. THE YEAR 1822 TO HOEACE SMITH (London) Lerici, June 29, 1822. • ••••• Lord Byron continues at Leghorn, and has just receivedfrom Genoa a most beautiful little yacht, which he causedto be built there. He has written two new cantos of DonJuan/ but I have not seen them. I have just received aletter from Hunt, who has arrived at Genoa. As soon asI hear that he has sailed, I shall weigh anchor in ray littleschooner, and give him chase to Leghorn, when I mustoccupy myself in some arrangements for him with LordByron. Between ourselves, I greatly fear that this alli-ance ^ will not succeed : for I, who could never have beenregarded as more than the link of the two thunderbolts,cannot now consent to be even that; and how long thealliance may continue, I will not prophesy. Pray do nothint my doubts on the subject to any one, o
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