'My studies have since my writing [St. Irvyne] been of a more serious nature. I am at present engaged in completing a series of moral & metaphysical essays. Perhaps their copy-right would be accepted in lieu of part of my debt?' P. B. Shelley to J. J. Stockdale, 1 August 1811

'Tatty is planning a journey to England to secure his property in the event of a Revolution, which he is persuaded is on the eve of exploding. I neither believe that, nor do I fear that the consequences will be so immediately destructive...' Percy to Mary Shelley, 30 July 1820

'This country [Wales] is highly romantic here are rocks of immense height, & picturesque waterfalls. I am more astonished at the grandeur of this scenery than I expected. I do not now much regard it. I have other things to think of. —' P. B. Shelley to T. J. Hogg, 28 July 1811

[Consumption] is a disease particularly fond of people who write such good verses as you have done... I do not think that young & aimiable poets are at all bound to gratify its taste; they have entered into no bond with the Muses to that effect. Letter to J. Keats, 27 July 1820

"Be so good as to send me 'Tasso's Lament' a Poem just published; & Taylors Translation of Pausanias. You will oblige me by sending them without delay, as I have immediate need for them." P. B. Shelley to C. Ollier, 24 July 1817

These glaciers flow perpetually into the valley ravaging in their slow but irresistible progress the pastures & the forests which surround them, & performing a work of desolation in ages which a river of lava might accomplish in an hour... Letter to T. L. Peacock, 22 July 1816

'The poet & the man are two different natures: though they exist together they may be unconscious of each other, & incapable of deciding upon each other's powers & effects by any reflex act. —' P. B. Shelley to J. & M. Gisborne, 19 July 1821