Godwin Diary

Wilmot

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26.9.1809 call on Wilmot / 17.11.1809 again / 15.2.1810 call on Tipper, Wilmot & Hill, & Miles / 5.4.1810 call on Tate, & Wilmot & Hill

Wilmott & Hill bookseller 50 High-st Borough stationers paperhangers booksellers (bbti). William Wilmott & Robert Hill. Godwin would have had to cross over London Bridge to call on them. The two entries with Wilmot & Hill above have been wrongly coded to Thomas Hill on GD website

Asperne

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16.11.1809 call on Asperne

James Asperne bookseller 32 Cornhill from 1806 to 1822 (bbti)

Hessey, James Augustus (& Taylor)

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16.11.1809 call on Taylor & Hessey / 12.6.1819 call on Hessey / 16.10.1825 sup at Lamb's; adv. Hessey

John Taylor & James Augustus Hessey booksellers 93 Fleet-st 1806 to 1825 (bbti). Published Keats. Hessey was father of James Augustus Hessey DNB 1814-1892. John Taylor died 1853 (bbti).

Woolnoth

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14.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 30.10.1809 call on Woolnoth / 31.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 6.11.1809 again

Likely William Woolnoth engraver (bbti) 92 White Lion-str Pentonville (Holdens directory 1802) 1780-1837 (William Woolnoth gent White Lion-row SunFire 1782 presumably his father). Woolnoth was a surname given to foundlings baptised at St Mary Woolnoth

Dickson

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18.10.1809 write to Dickson / 3.11.1809 again

Perhaps William Dickson bookseller High-st Edinburgh (Holdens directory 1811)

Merridew

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3.11.1809 write to Merridew / 30.7.1810 again / 5.12.1810 again / 15.7.1811 again / 9.3.1812 again

Probably Nathaniel Merridew 1763-1823 bookseller pf Coventry (bbti)

Saunders, John

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7.12.1809 John Saunders calls / 9.12.1809 Saunders calls / 20.5.1811 call, w. C(harles) on Saunders / 29.3.1814 call on Ballachey (Saunders) / 30.5.1814 call on Saunders / 1.6.1814 call on Saunders / 15.6.1814 call on Ballachey & Saunders (not seen), twice / 16.6.1814 call on Saunders / 17.6.1814 again / 18.6.1814 again / 7.11.1816 Saunders calls / 22.3.1817 call on Saunders / 16.7.1821 call on Saunders (not seen) / 23.7.1821 call on Saunders; adv. Agar & H Robinson / 24.7.1821 call on Saunders; adv.

Dry

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13.12.1809 call on Dry, w. M(ary) J(ane)

Abraham Dry pawnbroker & silversmith 17 South-st Manchester-sq & 32 St Martins-la Charing-cross. Only Dry in Holdens 1811 trades directory, probably the same as  A Dry esq 36 Upper Charlotte-st in 1811 court directory. His will PCC 1820

Bish

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13.12.1809 call on [R Sharp] [Bish} / 16.12.1809 call on R Sharp, Bish

Thomas Bish stockbroker & lottery office, 4 Cornhill & 9 Charing-cross. The only Bish in Holdens directory 1811. His will PCC 1815

Robbins

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18.12.1809 write to Robbins / 12.3.1811 again / 4.9.1811 (in Winchester) call on Robbins, twice / 26.9.1811 write to Robbins / 11.2.1818 again / 21.8.1818 again

James Robbins bookseller Winchester (bbti)