Chapter XXIV: October 1839-February 1851

1839. Publication of Shelley's prose works--Motto--Letter
from Carlyle.

1840. Journal--Brighton--Continental tour with Percy and his
reading-party--Stay at Como--Mary's enjoyment--Her son takes
his degree, and receives allowance from his grandfather--
Letter of congratulation from Mrs. Norton--Mary 1841 and
Percy go abroad again--Kissingen; Gotha; Weimar; Leipzig;
Berlin; Dresden; Prague; Linz; Salzburg; Venice--
Associations--Winter at Florence--Rome--Sorrento--Home again.

1844. _Rambles in Germany and Italy_--Dedication to Rogers:
note from him--Death of Sir T. Shelley--Mary's letter to
Leigh Hunt--Shelley's various legacies--Letter from Hogg--
Portrait--Mrs. Shelley's literary friendships--Letter from
Walter Savage Landor--Hogg's _Shelley Papers_--Subsequent
_Life of Shelley_--Facsimile of fragment in Mary's
handwriting--Medwin's book inaccurate and objectionable--
Mary fails to write Shelley's Life--Marriage of Sir 1847
Percy Shelley--Mary lives with her son and daughter-in-law--
Her sweetness and unselfishness--Her kindness to her son's
friends--Clare's visits to Field Place--Her excitability and
eccentricity--Her death at Florence; 1878.

1851. Mary Shelley's health declines--Her death--Her grave
in Bournemouth Churchyard--Retrospect of her history and
mental development--Extract from Journal of October 1838,
giving her own views--The success of her life a moral rather
than an intellectual one--Her nobility of character--Her
influence on Shelley--Her lifelong devotion to him 292-325

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY