Godwin Diary

Godwin's diary Vol VII f 46r Sidney Montague for India, 1788 - refuses 5 guineas of BM, & takes 5s - about 21

24.9.1796

In right hand column of dary Vol V!! f 45v

Richard Cumberland DNB 1732-1811. Godwin didn't meet him till 1810, see "1796 list" (my entry on this website date 24/09/1796)

In Godwin's 1796 list (At top right of diary Vol VII f 45v and at top of f 47r see my entry for 1796 list)

John Logan DNB 1747-88 came to London October 1785. I think he worked with Godwin on Political Herald but need to check my source for this. According to the DNB he worked with Gilbert Stuart on the English Review which Stuart  edited as also the Political Herald

The so-called "1796 list" is at the end of Vol VII of Godwin's diary on folios 45 to 48 after the diary entry for 24.9.1796 and is transcribed on the GD website after that day. There is an earlier version of it in Abinger c 31 f 90-92 readable online in the Western Manuscripts section of the Bodleian Library website / e-Resources / All Resources, which goes nearly to the end of 1794 and probably dates from soon after 1.11.1794 (when its last name, Wharton, appeared in the diary).

14.9.1796 mes(dames) Kettle & Lloyd at Foulkes'

Godwin used the mes to include married and unmarried ladies. The only other Kettle in his diary were 2 Kettles at his mother's funeral in Norfolk in 1809, unlikely to be the same person as this entry

13.9.1796 call on Saunders, Cliffords Inn & mr J Lawrence with Holcroft & Nicholson

13.9.1796 call on Saunders, Cliffords inn, & mr J Lawrence with Holcroft & Nicholson

William Saunders attorney of the Marshalsea and Palace Courts, Cliffords Inn and Brentford Butts (Law List) his will PCC 1810 throws no light on why Godwin, Holcroft and Nicholson went to see him. for Lawrence see Lawrence, J

12.9.1796 call on Wignell with Cooper

Thomas Wignell d.1803 manager of Chestnut Street theatre, Philadelphia (see American National Biography Anne Merry, or Highfill Burnim and Langhans Anne Wignell). He came to England to recruit actors and sailed back to America with Thomas Abthorpe Cooper and the Merrys, became Anne Merry's second husband in 1803 and died seven weeks later having fathered a child.

30.8.1796 Kendal at (George) Robinson's / 27.12.1796 again / 28.11.1810 at Cooper's with M(arshall) & Irving

28.8.1796 Gilchrist at Holcroft's with Cole / 19.3.1797 again / 26.3.1797 Gilchrist at Holcroft's with Cole & Spiring / 13.5.1798 again / 22.1.1802 E & H Gilchrist dine / 12.1.1819 dine at Booth's with Curtises, Gilchrist & 4 Baxters / 10.12.1826 call on Gilchrist, twice : St James's Park