Godwin Diary

Askins 31.7.1797 at Sadler's Wells

Mr Askins (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans) a one-legged ventriloquist from Staffordshire at Sadler's Wells theatre from 1796

Pidcock's 17.7.1797 Exeter Change / 27.4.1801 Pidcock's with F(anny) & M(ary or possibly Marshall) / 14.5.1803 Pidcock's (with Mrs Godwin & their four children)

The will of Edward or Gilbert Pidcock PCC 1810. His menagerie in Exeter Change from 1791 or earlier had elephants kangaroos tigers and a two-headed heifer

call on E Fenwick (Elise) 17.7.1797 / 12.6.1802 E & E Fenwicks at tea / 8.11.1807 F[enwic]k dines adv EF jr

Perhaps a reference to Eliza Anne daughter of John and Elizabeth Fenwick. Followed by Pidcock's, Exeter Change, the two other occasions when Godwin visited Pidcock's menagerie were with children, see Pidcock, Gilbert. For her later appearances see her person record in GD website and see Rutherford, William on this site. The 1801 entry above has the first E unidentified in GD website, but this was probably a way of noting mother and daughter without father

Cha Willis 16.7.1797 dines / 24.9.1797 Anne & Cha Willis dine / 25.1.1798 Willis adv at theatre / 6.1.1800 (call on? meet?) C & H Willis / 10.2.1800 adv Willis's at theatre / 5.6.1800 meet Willis / 14.6.1800 Cha Willis at theatre / 14.10.1800 A Willis calls / 6.1.1801 Cha Willis at James Marshall's / 19.1.1801 Cha Willis at tea / 9.8.1801 Godwin writes to Willis / 22.5.1819 Willis at Aldis's / 14.6.1830 Willis at Martin's / 12.7.1830 again / 9.5.1831 again / 23.5.1831 again

Chambers 11.7.1797 at Joseph Johnson's

Mitchel 11.7.1797 at Joseph Johnson's / 1.12.1800 miss Mitchel at Sarah Elwes / 25.2.1801 again / 26.5.1801 Mitchel at Nicholson's / 21.6.1808 calls / 20.5.1831 Mitchel (Tyne Mercury) calls / 20.6.1833 seek Haughton & Mitchel / 21.6.1833 call on Haughton (Asiatic Society) / 22.6.1833 call with Rowbothom on Mitchel, A S

1801 at Nicholson's may have been John Mitchell DNB 1785-1859 army officer and writer, as the DNB states "In 1801 he was sent to a mathematical school in London taught by a Mr Nicholson".

Jacks 11.7.1797 at Joseph Johnson's /

mrs Vaughan arrives, Vaughan calls 23.8.1797 / 24.8.1797 Vaughan calls / 25.8.1797 Vaughan, Addington call / 2.9.1797 nurse / 3.9.1797 nurse / 13.9.1797 mrs V removes / 14.9.1797 PV sups (& Fenwicks) / 17.9.1797 mrs V dines / 18.9.1797 mrs V at tea / 21.9.1797 talk with PV / 22.9.1797 adv PV at dinner / 23.9.1797 write to Addn. adv PV at dinner / 26.9.1797 (mrs Fenwick &) PV at tea / 29.9.1797 PV calls / 4.10.1797 PV calls

Addington at tea 29.6.1797 / 30.6.1797 calls / 1.7.1797 to 5.7.1797 Godwin reads Vaughan's letters / 6.7.1797 Godwin writes to Vaughan / 7.7.1797 Godwin reads Vaughan's letters / 8.7.1797 Addington dines / 9.7.1797 calls / 16.7.1797 again /19.7.1797 Godwin writes to Vaughan / 23.7.1797 Addington at tea / 24.7.1797 Godwin reads Vaughan's letters and finishes them on 25.7.1797 / 27.7.1797 Addington at tea / 3.8.1797 again / 18.8.1797 Godwin writes to Vaughan.

breakfast at Otter's 19.6.1797 (near Cambridge)

Edward & William Otter (Alum Cant) both fellows of Jesus college Cambridge in 1797, Edward was vicar of All Saints Cambridge in 1797, William was nearer in age to Basil Montagu, who had been a student at Cambridge, and with whom Godwin was travelling round England in a chaise