Mary Jane Godwin left for an extended stay in Herne Bay following ‘an attack of influenza and subsequently an affliction with tic douloureux’. She returns on 3 September 1834.

See The journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, ed. by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1987), p. 540, n. 3.