16.7.1796 event tag: the comment in the GD website suggests that this "Mary chez elle" clearly referred to Mary Wollstonecraft, who was a hundred miles away. Possibly Godwin put an entry for 1797 in the wrong year when writing up his diary, but since he never called Mary Wollstonecraft "Mary" anywhere else in the diary, nor did his letters address her as Mary, it seems quite possible that this referred to another Mary. Godwin had supped that night at W. Tooke Harwood's not far from his mother's house at Dalling, possibly at Melton Constable where at one point Harwood lived with his friends the Astleys. He then wrote "sleep" before "Mary chez elle" so perhaps he had some lucid dream? During his stay in Norfolk he apparently had some flirtation with the very young Louisa Brunton (3.7.1796), and wrote a rather tardy love letter to Mary Wollstonecraft (13.7.1796).