Godwin Diary

Heard 10.10.1799 adv at Curran's

at theatre 7.10.1799 adv Perry (Alkmaar)

In the GD website the play record for this day is blank, it should be Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Naval Pillar by Thomas James Dibdin (at Covent Garden). A battle between the British & French took place near Alkmaar on 2.10.1799 resulting in a British victory, the town of Alkmaar was taken on 4.10.1799. The journalist James Perry may have had some interesting news of it 

dr Rowley 4.10.1799 adv at James Marshall's / 8.7.1800 (in Ireland) Rowley at Caldwell's / 12.9.1818 sleep at Rowley's (Southend)

Dr Rowley may have been William Rowley DNB 1742-1806. Rowley in Ireland perhaps Clotworthy Rowley of Granby Row or Hon Clotworthy Rowley of Mountjoy Sq both Dublin 1795

Row 3.10.1799 adv at Curran,s / 19.10.1799 again

Rowes at Joyce's 16.1.1806 / Rowes at Hodget's 27.10.1826

Row is a common name, and Rowe (which Godwin might well have spelt Row), very common, Rowes as a surname is quite rare, and the Rowes noted above may have been a couple, plural of Rowe. If so those at Joyce's may have been John Rowe (DNB 1764-1832) Unitarian minister at Lewins Mead, Bristol, and his wife Mary who died in 1825. I have yet to study the Hodget circle. William Rowes of 26 Surry Street, Strand, gent, insured SunFire 1804.

Weld 3.10.1799 adv at Curran's

Richard Weld died 12.12.1799 (see Lloyd's Evening Post 13- 16.12.1799). All previous Weld entries in 1796 and 1797 are coded in GD website but the person record does not identify him, though David Fallon does in his article on booksellers in the Bodleian Library Record's issue on Godwin's diary. Richard Weld of Bolton St, St Geo Han Sq, voted Fox 1784, Fox & Tooke 1790

Commissioner's Room with Goldsmith 2.10.1799 / 8.10.1799 Goldsmith calls (not in) / 25.2.1801 mrs Goldsmith at S Elwes'. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1801 / 21.3.1801 S Elwes & S Goldsmith call / 19.4.1801 S E(lwes) & L Goldsmith call / 21.4.1801 call on L Goldsmith / 23.4.1801 evening at Goldsmith's with S Elwes, Egerton & others / 16.9.1801 meet L Goldsmith / 16.3.1802 call on Goldsmith (with McAdam) / 19.3.1802 sign with McAdam & Goldsmith

GODWIN DIARY: adv soeur 4.4.1799 at M Hays / 25.9.1799 mr Hays adv at Astley's

Mary Hays' sister Sarah Hills has a person record on the GD website. Soeur should perhaps be added to her. perhaps to another sister like Joanna Dunkin, or Elizabeth Hays later Mrs Lanfear. Mr Hays was probably one of their brothers John or Thomas, her father was by then dead. See Correspondence of Mary Hays

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY     5.9.1812 at George Wedd's, Mr Hill nephew and Mr Lanfere son in law of Miss Hays (should be nephew-in-law?)

Loveridge 22.9.1799 at Fell's with Oldfield

19.9.1799 mrs Nicholson at tea / 1.10.1799 miss Nicholsons call / 30.12.1799 call on mrs Nicholson / 9.2.1801 call on mrs Nicholson adv mrs Carlisle / 11.1.1802 miss Nicholsons call / 20.10.1802 S Nicholson & Marshall dine (not) / 24.10.1802 meet S Nicholson & E Scott / 27.3.1803 A Nicholson calls / 10.4.1803 A & M Nicholson call / 17.4.1803 S Nicholson calls / 8.5.1803 call with MJ (mrs Godwin) on S Nicholson / 7.6.1803 S Nicholson & miss King at Emma Smith's / 18.7.1803 call with MJ (Mrs Godwin) on S Nicholson / 18.8.1803 A Nicholson at H(olcrof)t's / 27.1.1804 mrs Nichols

mrs Gray 15.9.1799 at Nicholson's / 10.8.1802 call on Gray & Planta / 16.9.1803 call on Ellis, British Museum, adv Gray / 26.6.1805 call on Ellis (not in) adv Gray / 6.8.1805 call on Dr Gray & H Ellis / 22.4.1813 Gray at Surrey Institution / 22.4.1816 mr & mrs Gray & Clarinda at Ainslie's (in Edinburgh) / 24.4.1816 (in Edinburgh) Gray dines / 5.4.1834 letter to Gray