The work of utility carried out by his landlord aroused his enthusiastic admiration; and when the embankment was emperilled by a heavy sea, he got up a subscription for its preservation.

Heading the list with 500 pounds, how raised, or whether paid, we know not, he endeavoured to extract similar sums from the neighbouring gentry, and even ran up with Harriet to London to use his influence for the same purpose with the Duke of Norfolk.

On this occasion he made the personal acquaintance of the Godwin family.
Life at Tanyrallt was smooth and studious, except for the diversion caused by the peril to the embankment.

We hear of Harriet continuing her Latin studies, reading Odes of Horace, and projecting an epistle in that language to Hogg.

Shelley, as usual, collected many books around him.
There are letters extant in which he writes to London for Spinoza and Kant, Plato, and the works of the chief Greek historians.