469.] [Footnote 9: Browning in a letter to Mr Wise says that this happened "some time before 1830 (or even earlier).

The books," he says, "were obtained in the _regular way_, from Hunt and Clarke." Mr Gosse in _Personalia_ gives a different account, pp.

23, 24.] [Footnote 10: The quotations from letters above are taken from J.C.
Hadden's article "Some Friends of Browning" in _Macmillan's Magazine_, Jan.

1898.] [Footnote 11: Later in life Browning came to think unfavourably of Shelley as a man and to esteem him less highly as a poet.

He wrote in December 1885 to Dr Furnivall: "For myself I painfully contrast my notions of Shelley the _man_ and Shelley, well, even the _poet_, with what they were sixty years ago." He declined Dr Furnivall's invitation to him to accept the presidency of "The Shelley Society."] [Footnote 12: Even the publishers--Saunders and Otley--did not know the author's name.--"Letters of R.B.and E.B.B.," i.