SOURCE: Review of Letters of Edward John Trelawny, by Edward John Trelawny, The Dial, Vol. L, No. 595, April 1, 1911, p. 270.

In the essay that follows, the reviewer comments on the most striking impressions of Trelawny's letters: that his character was “full of strange contradiction” and that the relationship that dominated his life was his friendship with Shelley.

Of all the men who did “once see Shelley plain,” none survived him longer or loved to talk about him more than Edward John Trelawney [sic]. Byron, also, Trelawney knew well; and, though loving him less, followed him to Greece where they worked together for a common cause. Surviving these friends of his youth for more than half a century, Trelawney wrote his well-known Recollections of them, and was always ready to talk on the same interesting subjects. Naturally, the octogenarian who had been honored by the friendship of two such great...