| | | | Lady Caroline + William Lamb. DESCENT OF ALLEGRA William Godwin.

| Allegra. CHAPTER VII LIFE ABROADSWITZERLAND TO VENICETHIRD PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP.CHILDE HAROLD, III., IV.MANFRED.

Shortly after his arrival in Switzerland he contracted an intimacy with Miss Clairmont, a daughter of Godwin's second wife, and consequently a connexion by marriage of the Shelleys, with whom she was living, which resulted in the birth of a daughter, Allegra, at Great Marlow, in February, 1817.

In the May or June of 1818 Byron's little daughter, Allegra, had been sent from England, under the care of a Swiss nurse too young to undertake her management in such trying circumstances, and after four months of anxiety he placed her in charge of Mrs. Hoppner.

"Allegra is prettier, I think, but as obstinate as a mule, and as ravenous as a vulture; health good, to judge by the complexion, temper tolerable, but for vanity and pertinacity.

Next day he said, "Allegra is dead; she is more fortunate than we.

On leaving the city, Moore passed a second afternoon at La Mira, had a glimpse of Allegra, and the first intimation of the existence of the notorious Memoirs.

When the Count went to Bologna, in August, with his wife, Lord Byron was allowed to follow; andafter consoling himself during an excursion which the married pair made to their estate, by hovering about her empty rooms and writing in her bookshe established himself, on the Count's return to his headquarters, with her and Allegra at Bologna.

Byron, with the Countess and her brother, established themselves in the Villa Rossa at Monte Nero, a suburb of Leghorn, from which port at this date the remains of Allegra were conveyed to England.

The persons who were more particularly dear to Shelley at this time must have been (not to mention the two children Percy Florence Shelley and Allegra Clairmont) his wife, Miss Clairmont, Emilia Viviani, and Lieutenant and Mrs. Williams:

Ho veduto prima del mio partire piu squadre di soldati andar per Londra cercando donne di allegra vita, imbarcandone 1,200 sopre tre vascelli per tragittarle all' isola, a fine di far propagazione.

In 1816 met Miss Clairmont at Geneva, who bore him an illegitimate daughter, Allegra, 1817; in 1819 met Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, at Venice, and remained with her during his stay in Italy.

MURRAYcontinuedTHE DEATH OF ALLEGRA, ETC.

On the death of Allegra, his natural daughter, Lord Byron entrusted to Mr. Murray the painful duty of making arrangements for the burial of the remains in Harrow Church.

The remains of Allegra, after long delay, were at length buried in the church, just under the present door mat, over which the congregation enter the church; but no memorial tablet or other record of her appears on the walls of Harrow Church.

IV., "Don Juan," Canto V., Murray's refusal to publish further Cantos of "Don Juan," "My boy Hobby O!" Hobhouse's anger, Whig Club at Cambridge, pamphlet on "Bowles' strictures," "Sardanapalus," "The Two Foscari," "Cain, a Mystery," injunction in case of "Cain," death and burial of Allegra, illness, and last letter to Murray, adopts Hato or Hatagée, the Suliotes incident, death:

From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall-stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.

ANIMA ALLEGRA (THE JOYOUS SOUL), a play in three acts.

R68401, 13Oct50, Marie Mora-Boylesve (née Maria Boylesve) (NK) ELKIN, R. H. SEE Anima allegra (The Joyous soul).

Sing, canary, sing, by Arthur I. Gates, Allegra Ingleright & Celeste Comegys Peardon.

Arthur I. Gates, Allegra Ingleright & Celeste Comegys Peardon (A); 25Nov66; R398319.

SEE Malmin, Olaf. INGLERIGHT, ALLEGRA.

ANIMA ALLEGRA (THE JOYOUS SOUL), a play in three acts.

Sing, canary, sing, by Arthur I. Gates, Allegra Ingleright & Celeste Comegys Peardon.

SEE Malmin, Olaf. INGLERIGHT, ALLEGRA.