CLONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1877.

CONTENTS. - N° 184.

NOTES:-Byron and Shelley in the Environs of Geneva during
the Summer of 1816, 1-Whitsunday: Whitsuntide, 2-Shak-
speariana, 4-Pedigrees and Pedigree Makers: The St. Johns
and Tollemaches, 5-Brahma, the Father-Life at Harro-
gate in 1731, 6.

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Clergyman's Companion" - "Lindabrides" - Parchment
Abbey-Browning's "Sordello"-The Caxton
Churchyard-Authors Wanted, &c., 10.

1

and in a note to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,
canto iii., Byron accordingly says, "This is written
in the eye of Mont Blanc (June 3, 1816), which
even at this distance dazzles mine." §

The Shelleys and Miss Clairmont had clearly
reached the hotel by the 17th of May. This is
the date of Mrs. Shelley's first letter thence, given
in the Six Weeks' Tour. It is the letter of a per-
son who has arrived a day or two, not of a person
arrived on that same day, inasmuch as she writes,
"We have hired a boat, and every evening at
about six o'clock we sail on the lake." And

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la Maine Family-Briggs Family-Curious Use of Words-
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Carausius-"Outile "-"Patina"-Shakspeare-"High Bor-
lase"-"The Long Eleventh of June"-J. Witherspoon and
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and Pamela - Bonvyle Family-"Temorn"-"To-year".
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Notes.

BYRON AND SHELLEY IN THE ENVIRONS OF
GENEVA DURING THE SUMMER OF 1816.

The first meeting of these illustrious poets was
at the Hôtel de Sécheron. This was more cor-
rectly the Hôtel d'Angleterre at Sécheron, a small
suburb of Geneva, situated about an English mile
and a quarter on the road to Lausanne, that is,
north-east of Geneva, and on the north shore of
the lake. It was kept at that time by one Dejean,
and in both the Letters and Journals and in the
Six Weeks' Tourt it is merely called Hôtel de
Sécheron. It must be remembered, in order to
understand the topography of many allusions in
the two above works, that the city of Geneva
occupies the extreme south-west angle of Lake
Leman, and that both the north and south shores
of the lake diverge respectively from left and right
of that city. On the north shore stood the Hôtel
de Sécheron, which would thus face Mont Blanc,

Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of
his Life, by Thomas Moore, in two volumes. London,
J. Murray, 1830, 4to.

+ History of a Six Weeks' Tour, &c. London, Hook-
ham, Jun., &c., 1817, 12mo.

"Secheron's (sic) Hotel," at p. 71 of the Shelley
Memorials, &c., London, 1859, 2nd edition, 8vo., is, of
course, incorrect. Medwin says, "At Dejean's, Sécheron."
This is right as far as it goes. See The Life of Percy
Bysshe Shelley, by Thomas Medwin, in two volumes,
vol. i. p. 236. London, Newby, 1847, 8vo.

here, yet our time passes swiftly and delightfully."
I should fix their arrival at Sécheron late on the
15th of May, on these grounds:- The same letter
commences, "We arrived at Paris on the 8th of
this month, and we were detained two days for
the purpose of obtaining the various signatures
necessary to our passports." That is to say, the
Shelleys left Paris on May 10. We are then told
that Dijon was reached on the third evening after
their departure from Paris (May 13); Cham-
pagnolles was reached at midnight on the fourth
evening (May 14). They leave Les Rousses at
6 P.M. next day (May 15), and no doubt reached
Geneva before midnight on that same evening.

Byron and Dr. Polidori arrived there on May 25,
and acquaintance was made with the Shelleys and
Miss Clairmont within two days.||

Their subsequent movements are thus told by
Moore:-

"After passing a fortnight under the same roof with
Lord Byron at Sécheron, Mr. and Mrs. Shelley removed
to a small house on the Mont Blanc side of the Lake,
within about ten minutes' walk of the villa which their
noble friend had taken, upon the high banks, called

§ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iii., p. 73. Lon-
don, 1816.

|| The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, &c.,
and a Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. London,
Moxon, 1870, 2 vols. 8vo. (See Memoir, vol. i. 1xxxvii.)
I copy the dates of the arrival and of the acquaintance-

ship from Mr. W. Rossetti. They are taken from Poli-
diary. Subsequently, in narrating that curious but
often-repeated incident of Shelley's hallucination of the
breast-eyed woman, Mr. Rossetti informs us that the ver-
sion of this story, which he then proceeds to quote, "is
thus authentically jotted down in the physician's diary,"
and the occurrence is dated June 18. This diary of Poli-

dori's was never published. Polidori has also told the in-
cident in his prefatory letter to the Vampyre (London,
1819, Svo., published anonymously), and this account is
quoted by Moore (vol. ii. p. 208); but, though the two
versions tally, their wording is different. In a letter at
the page last cited Byron, who had received the Vampyre,
comments very amusingly on the various perversions of its
preface. He then continues, "What do you mean about
Polidori's Diary? Why, I defy him to say anything
about me, but he is welcome," which sentence thus
ends brokenly, but its general sense is easy to gather,
and the passage shows that the physician had at that
time (1819) thoughts of publishing his journal. This