Note iii — INTRODUCTION

A note, probably in Richard Garnett’s hand, enclosed in a MS box with the two notebooks in Lord Abinger’s collection describes them as of Italian make with “slanting head bands, inserted through the covers.” Professor Lewis Patton’s list of the contents of the microfilms in the Duke University Library (Library Notes, No. 27, April, 1953) describes them as vellum bound, the back cover of the Mathilda notebook being missing. Lord Abinger’s notebooks are on Reel 11. The Bodleian notebook is catalogued as MSS. Shelley d. 1, the Shelley-Rolls fragments as MSS. Shelley adds c. 5.