_A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things_--Evidence that the Poem was Published--Reasons for Thinking it may never have been Published--Reasons for Thinking that, if the Poem was Published, it was promptly Suppressed--Did Shelley contribute Prose and Poetry to the _Oxford Herald_?--Spurious Letter to the Editor of the _Statesman_--Shelley's First Letter to Leigh Hunt--His way of Introducing himself to Strangers--Did he at the Same Moment Think Well and Ill of his Father?--Miss Janetta Phillips's Poems--E. & W. Phillips, the Worthing Printers. CHAPTER XIII. SHELLEY'S SECOND RESIDENCE-TERM AT OXFORD 251 Harriett Westbrook--Her Character and Beauty--How Shelley came to care for her--Her Subscription for Janetta Phillips's Poems--Shelley's first Visit to Harriett's Home--His Intention to compete for 'the Newdigate'--Thornton Hunt's scandalous Suggestion--Obligations of the Oxford Undergraduate--Mary Wollstonecraft on the Guinea Forfeit-- Shelley's False Declaration--His numerous Untruths--_The Necessity of Atheism_--Was it a Squib?--Lady Shelley's Inaccuracies--Mr. Garnett's Misdescription of the Tract--His Misrepresentation of Hogg--The _Little Syllabus_ printed at Worthing--More Untruths by Shelley--The Tract offered for Sale in Oxford--Shelley called before 'the Dons'--His Expulsion from University College--Hogg's Impudence and Craft--His Misrepresentations--Shelley and Hogg leave Oxford. CHAPTER XIV. THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1811 292 Arrival in Town--The Poland-Street Exiles--The Squire's Correspondence with Hogg's Father--His gentle Treatment of Shelley--Dinner at Miller's Hotel--Hogg's Testimony to the Squire's Worth--Shelley's Nicknames for his Father--Shelley rejects his Father's Terms--Shelley offers Terms to his Father--The Squire's Indignation--He Relents--He makes Shelley a Liberal Allowance--Lady Shelley's Misrepresentations--The Exiles about Town--The Separation of 'The Inseparables'--Shelley's Intimacy with the Westbrooks Shelley's Intimacy with the Westbrooks--John Westbrook's Calling and Character--Taking the Sacrament--Harriett Westbrook's Conversion to Atheism--Her Disgrace at School-- Shelley's Measures for illuminating his Sister Hellen-- Tourists in Wales--The Change in Elizabeth Shelley-- Arrangements for a Clandestine Meeting--Mrs. Shelley's Treatment of her Son--Captain Pilford's Kindness to his Nephew--Harriett Westbrook's Appeal to Shelley--Her Decision and Indecision--From Wales to London--Hogg's Influence--The Elopement to Scotland--Hogg starts for Edinburgh. CHAPTER XV. MOTIVE AND INFLUENCES 330