 For many years he worked on his own autobiographical novel, "Walter Hazlebourn", which he never finished.In Italy he moved in with Joseph Severn.His friend Leigh Hunt was there as well, and through him Brown was introduced to Lord Byron, John Taaffe, Jr. (friend of Byron and Shelley), Seymour Kirkup, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Walter Savage Landor, and many others.