Suet 19.5.1797 at Amelia Alderson's / 29.4.1799 dine at G's Head

Richard Suett (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans 1758-1805) acior

Toulmin 16.5.1797 at Barbauld's

Seems likely to have been Joshua Toulmin DNB 1740-1815

Willis's 12.5.1797 after theatre

This may have referred to Willis's coffee house, or to Charles Willis (qv) who first appeared in the diary on 16.7.1797, or to Willis Webb (qv), as Godwin had met a Webb earlier the same day (it seems unlikely Godwin would use his first name although he may have referred to him as Willis on 25.6.1788 when Webb was his pupil - or that may have been someone of the surname Willis)

C Smith 2.5.1797 at John King's

The GD website has coded this entry to Charlotte Smith, but her position in the sequence of Godwin's 1796 list for 1797, after Bage (met 14.6.1797) and G Fordyce (met 7.7.1797), suggests that her taking tea at Godwin's on 13.7.1797 was their first meeting. The 1796 list also put sir Robert Smyth and Carrington Smith in that order immediately before Bage, and the diary noted them both at Joseph Johnson's on 9.5.1797, a week after the C Smith entry above. So it may have been Carrington Smith or some other C Smith at King's (see Smith, Carew).

Cockburne 2.5.1797 at John King's

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mr Swainson of Frith St Soho proposed member 8.2.1793 by Thomas Holcroft 2nded William Harwood

GODWIN DIARY: Swainson 2.5.1797 at John King's

Copley jr 25.4.1797 calls (& Barnes)

John Singleton Copley DNB 1772-1863 "a mighty Jacobin". According to Farington's Diary iv 1411 he was cured of his democratic principles by going to America

mrs Brandon 24.4.1797 at miss Tucker's

Given that two of the other guests' names were Jewish (Delvalle, Sequeira) this may have been the wife of Jacob Israel Brandon sworn broker of London will PCC 1802 dated 21.7.1797 mentioned "my now wife Sarah formerly called Christian Webb" and also Abigail wife of Jacob Israel Brandon "son of my son David". Or another member of his family

Seguieras 24.4.1797 at miss Tucker's

Fenn 23.4.1797 adv at Holcrofts & Amelia Alderson / 13.4.1829 call on Fenn / 9.8.1834 Fenn's &c for Swift / 29.8.1834 call on Fenn