The name of the supposititious nephew reminds us of "Original Poems" by Victor and Cazire, and raises the question whether the poems in that lost volume may not have partly furnished forth this Oxford travesty.
Shelley's next publication, or quasi-publication, was neither so innocent in substance nor so pleasant in its consequences.

After leaving Eton, he continued the habit, learned from Dr.Lind, of corresponding with distinguished persons whom he did not personally know.

Thus we find him about this time addressing Miss Felicia Browne (afterwards Mrs.
Hemans) and Leigh Hunt.

He plied his correspondents with all kinds of questions; and as the dialectical interest was uppermost at Oxford, he now endeavoured to engage them in discussions on philosophical and religious topics.

We have seen that his favourite authors were Locke, Hume, and the French materialists.