Edward Augustus Silsbee’s travels to Italy and details of his conversations with Claire Clairmont are written in the Silsbee Papers, Memo Books, 1875–1877.
Percy Shelley’s dream of the house being flooded can be found in a letter from Mary Shelley to Maria Gisborne, dated August 15, 1822, and reprinted in Betty T. Bennett’s Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Mary Shelley’s recollections of E. J. Trelawny entering her house singing, “We will all suffer a sea change,” come from a letter Mary Shelley sent to Maria Gisborne on May 2, 1823, the death of her husband having occurred a year earlier. The letter is reprinted in Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert’s The Journals of Mary Shelley.
E. J. Trelawny’s first hearing of Percy Shelley while on Lake Geneva, as well as his subsequent meeting with Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, with more extensive details, can be found in E. J. Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron.
The letter Percy Shelley sent E. J. Trelawny about the possibility of finding prussic acid is also reprinted in E. J. Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. In this book are also Trelawny’s memories of his friends’ late departure from Leghorn, the mariner’s dire warning, and the storms that ensued that day.
The search for Percy Shelley and Edward Williams and the eventual recovery of the two bodies are detailed in part in E. J. Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. The cremation of the two bodies is also explained in gruesome detail in this book.
Captain Daniel Roberts’s two letters to E. J. Trelawny upon the recovery of Shelley’s boat, the Don Juan, are printed in E. J. Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron.
E. J. Trelawny’s letter to Claire Clairmont following the death of Percy Shelley and his belief that Mary Shelley was partly to blame for the poet’s unhappiness are copied in pencil in one of Captain Silsbee’s memorandum books, in the Silsbee Papers.
Lord Byron’s depression following Percy Shelley’s death, his loss of weight, and his departure to Greece are detailed in part in Countess Blessington’s A Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron with a Sketch of the Life of the Author and E. J. Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. In this last book are also details of Byron’s life on Missolonghi, the winter he spent there, his health decline, and his eventual passing, along with descriptions of the Greek doctors performing an autopsy on the poet and E. J. Trelawny’s peek at the corpse before it was shipped off to England.
The search for the author of Frankenstein is described in the Literary Panorama and British Critic.
Descriptions and details of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, its writing, and its publication are to be found, in part, in Hugh J. Luke Jr.’s The Last Man.
EPILOGUE
Description of Alistair Cooke’s death, his subsequent cremation, and the Cooke family’s learning of the New York gang of body snatchers, along with details of the dismembering of his body, come from my own conversations with Susan Cooke, Alistair Cooke’s daughter, and also from conversations with Wendy Kogut, whose sister was a victim as well, and Patricia McNeill of the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.
Details of Mary Shelley’s trip to Italy in the company of her son Percy Florence and his friends come from Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843.
Details of Mary Shelley’s death can be found in Betty T. Bennett’s The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert’s The Journals of Mary Shelley; Anne K. Mellor’s Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fictions, Her Monsters; Muriel Spark’s Mary Shelley; and Marion Kingston’s The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin.
Eulogy of Mary Shelley published on February 15 of 1851 in The Athenaeum.
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Index
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (film), 287
Abernathy, Joseph, 173
Adamson, Captain, 112
Agrippa, Cornelius, De occulta philosophia, 94, 95
Albertus Magnus, 101
alchemy, 93–100
divinity-based, 137
and elixir of life, 95–96
and Frankenstein concept, 92, 94, 95–96, 97–98, 100
and golem tales, 99–100
immortality sought via, 98
and natural philosophy, 93, 97
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