 He meant for the three of them—himself, Byron and Hunt—to create a journal, which would be called "The Liberal".With Hunt as editor, their controversial writings would be disseminated, and the journal would act as a counter-blast to conservative periodicals such as "Blackwood's Magazine" and "Quarterly Review".Leigh Hunt's son, the editor Thornton Leigh Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man.