Unless Stockdale's memory failed him on the matter in 1827, neither of these copies came to his hands.--'It is singular,' he says in his scandalous _Budget_ (1827), 'that, after all, the poem of _The Wandering Jew_ never reached my hands, nor have I either seen or heard of it from that time.' From this not altogether reliable statement it seems that there was a miscarriage of the second and 'reserved' transcript of the poem, sent by Shelley himself from Field Place to Pall Mall. For the removal of a scarcely noteworthy misapprehension, it may be observed there was no similar miscarriage of the other copy; the evidence being abundant that the MS., sent by Shelley from Field Place to Edinburgh, was _not_ lost through miscarriage on its way from Edinburgh to Pall Mall. This MS. cannot have miscarried for the simple reason, that it was never despatched by the Ballantynes to Mr. Stockdale's place of business. Instead of being sent to London, in accordance with the suggestion made by the Ballantynes themselves, and in accordance with the instructions sent to them by Shelley, mainly in consequence of their suggestion, the MS. rested at Edinburgh till 1831, when, some nine years after the poet's death, it came to light;--a discovery that was speedily followed by a publication of some portions of the metrical folly (Medwin says 'four of the cantos') in _Fraser's Magazine_. After throwing off _The Wandering Jew_, which even Mr. Buxton Forman, with all his reverence for every scrap of paper blotted by the poet, has excluded (with the exception of a few verses) from his authorized edition of the poet's writings, Shelley, with the assistance of a friend, produced in the spring or summer of 1810, the volume of poetry entitled _Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire_,--the edition of miserable rhymes, noticed in the _British Critic_ of 1811 (_vide_ Professor Dowden's very noteworthy article in _The Contemporary Review_ of September, 1884, on 'Some Early Writings of Shelley'), that was suppressed soon after its untimely birth, because at least one of the poems was discovered to be scandalously wanting in originality; to be, in fact, a gross and disgraceful plagiarism of one of Monk Lewis's pieces of sensational verse.