To judge from the testimony of his brother George it is not surprising that Keats succumbed to Haydon's influence against Hunt: "his nervous, morbid temperament led him to misconstrue the motives of his best friends."[115] In the last days of his life, his suspicion and bitterness were general. In a letter to Bailey, June, 1818, Keats says: "I have suspected everybody."[116] January, 1820, he wrote Georgiana Keats, "Upon the whole I dislike mankind."[117] Haydon may have sincerely believed Hunt's influence to be injurious because of the latter's unorthodoxy in matters of religion. He wrote that Keats "could not bring his mind to bear on one object, and was at the mercy of every petty theory that Leigh Hunt's ingenuity would suggest.... He had a tendency to religion when I first knew him, but Leigh Hunt soon forced it from his mind.... Leigh Hunt was the unhinger of his best dispositions. Latterly, Keats saw Leigh Hunt's weaknesses. I distrusted his leader, but Keats would not cease to visit him, because he thought Hunt ill-used. This shows Keats's goodness of heart."[118] It is not to be regretted that Haydon lessened Keats's estimate of Hunt's literary infallibility, for his influence was most injurious in that direction; but it is to be regretted that he impugned a friendship in which Hunt was certainly sincere and by which Keats had benefited. In September, just before Keats's return, he seems somewhat mollified and writes to John Hamilton Reynolds of Leigh Hunt's pleasant companionship; he has failings, "but then his make-ups are very good."[119] On his return to Hampstead in October, 1817, Keats found affairs among the circle in a very bad way.[120] Everybody "seems at Loggerheads--There's Hunt infatuated--there's Haydon's picture in statu quo--There's Hunt walks up and down his painting room--criticising every head most unmercifully. There's Horace Smith tired of Hunt. 'The web of our life is of mingled yarn.'... I am quite disgusted with literary men and will never know another except Wordsworth--no not even Byron. Here is an instance of the friendship of such. Haydon and Hunt have known each other many years.... Haydon says to me, Keats, don't show your lines to Hunt on any Account or he will have done half for you--so it appears Hunt wishes it to be thought. When he met Reynolds in the Theatre, John told him that I was getting on to the completion of 4,000 lines--Ah! says Hunt, had it not been for me they would have been 7,000! If he will say this to Reynolds, what would he to other people? Haydon received a Letter a little while back on this subject from some Lady--which contains a caution to me, thro' him, on the subject--now is not all this a most paultry (sic) thing to think about?"[121]