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Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...
Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange doings-Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. Last fortnight Margaret Armstrong (Fanny Kemble) reported the even stranger doings of Edward Trelawny, showed him to have been more Byronic than Byron...
...return to England was perfectly timed. Byron had written the early cantos of Childe Harold. Young ladies were dreaming of giaours, Manfreds, Mazeppas, with wild eyes, black mustaches, long cloaks, wicked pasts. In Lausanne one day Trelawny read Shelley's Queen Mab. He rushed to Pisa to meet the satanic author, was astonished at Shelley's "flushed, feminine and artless face," soon felt as romantic about Shelley as he had about De Ruyter...
Collections of Byron's works feature the exhibits now on display in Widener. In the Memorial Rooms are a selection of his books and manuscripts while in the Theatre Room is a history of the attempts to dramatize the life of Byren...
Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...