Hill

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Hills 30.12.1800 adv at M(arshall)'s / E Hill jr 6.1.1801 at M(arshall)'s, adv H Hill / 24.7.1801 E Hill's bill / 6.8.1801 E Hill dines (& Lambs) / 20.11.1801 E Hill calls / 15.9.1803 C & E Hills adv at L Knapp /  27.4.1807 E Hill adv at dinner / 23.9.1823 call on H Hill / 1.3.1827 M Hill at Hodget's

Thomas Holcroft's letters from Germany to Godwin of 24.10.1800 (Bodleian Abinger c6 f60-1) and 24.11.1800 (Abinger c6 f78-9) referred to a Mr Henry Hill who appears to have been the pretended author of a theatrical piece for which Holcroft was trying to negotiate payment from the London theatres wirh the help of Godwin and more particularly of James Marshall. Holcroft was convinced that the political reputations of himself and Godwin were such as to ruin the success of any piece known to be by them. Henry Hill could have been an imaginary person, or in the light of the above diary entries perhaps a real friend of Marshall's. Leonora Knapp was more often ithan not (in Godwin's diary) in the same company as James Marshall. The first entry above in 1800 has been coded to Mary Hays' sister Sarah Hills in the GD website, but since she only appeared in the diary on one other occasion, at her sister's, this one seems more likely to have been a plural of Hill