William Godwin manuscript material

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Creator

Godwin, William, 1756-1836.

Location

Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

Extent

• 383 items

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Note

The William Godwin manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, promissory notes, and various other documents. The writings include: complete holograph manuscript drafts of his works Fleetwood, Coludesley, and Lives of the Necromancers; manuscript drafts of essays from his Enquirer; and proof revisions written in volumes of his Political Justice and St. Leon. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1795-1834 and mostly discusses Godwin's research, business matters and financial arrangements. Correspondents include: Mary Shelley, novelist (his daughter); Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (his son-in-law); Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet; and over one hundred others. The promissory notes date from between 1804-1818, and are mostly to neighborhood merchants. Otherdocuments include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament.

Biographical/Historical Note

William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist. Godwin achieved celebrity at the end of the eighteenth century with the philosophical treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and the novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams. His first wife was Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer for women's rights, and their onlychild together grew up to become Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Godwin's philosophies greatly influenced thepolitical mind of his son-in-law, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Controlled Access Term

• Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Correspondence.

Additional Creator Names

• Arch, John, fl. 1792-1838. rcp
• Aspland, Robert, 1782-1845. rcp
• Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803. rcp
• Bartley, George, 1782-1858. rcp
• Baxter, William Thomas, b. ca. 1764. rcp
• Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871. rcp
• Blackwood, William, 1776-1834. rcp
• Blanchard, Laman, 1804-1845. rcp
• Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849. rcp
• Booth, David, 1766-1846. rcp
• Bowring, John, 1792-1872. rcp
• Bryant, William, of Sussex. rcp
• Burney, Charles, 1757-1817. rcp
• Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. rcp
• Caunter, Hobart, 1794-1851. rcp
• Chalmers, George, 1742-1825. rcp
• Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877. rcp
• Colburn, Henry, d. 1855. rcp
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. rcp
• Curran, Amelia, 1775-1847. rcp
• Curran, John Philpot, 1750-1817. rcp
• Dawe, George, 1781-1829. rcp
• Dillon, Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, Viscount, 1777-1832. rcp
• Fenwick, John, 1739-1823. rcp
• Flather, John. rcp
• Gaskell, Daniel, 1782-1875. rcp
• Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836. rcp
• Hamilton, S. (Samuel) rcp
• Harwood, William Tooke. rcp
• Hays, Mary, 1759 or 60-1843. rcp
• Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834. rcp
• Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862. rcp
• Hone, William, 1780-1842. rcp
• Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821. rcp
• Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833. rcp
• Kenney, James, 1780-1849. rcp
• Longman, Thomas Norton, 1771-1842. rcp
• Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834. rcp
• Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835. rcp
• Merivale, John Herman, 1779-1844. rcp
• Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851. rcp
• Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849. rcp
• Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. rcp
• Moxon, William, b. 1808. rcp
• Northcote, James, 1746-1831. rcp
• Northmore, Thomas, 1766-1851. rcp
• Ogborne, Elizabeth, 1763 or 64-1853. rcp
• Ollier, Charles, 1788-1859. rcp
• Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853. rcp
• Parkes, Joseph, 1796-1865. rcp
• Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852. rcp
• Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875. rcp
• Place, Francis, 1771-1854. rcp
• Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, d. 1850. rcp
• Rickman, Thomas Clio, 1761-1834. rcp
• Rodd, Thomas, 1763-1822. rcp
• Sharp, Richard, 1759-1835. rcp
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. rcp
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. rcp
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. rcp
• Shield, William, 1748-1829. rcp
• Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. rcp
• Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854. rcp
• Taylor, John, 1750-1826. rcp
• Taylor, John, 1757-1832. rcp
• Taylor, John, 1781-1864. rcp
• Taylor, Richard, 1781-1858. rcp
• Tieck, Ludwig, 1773-1853. rcp
• Wilson, Effingham, 1783-1868. rcp
• Wilson, Walter, 1781-1847. rcp
• Wollstonecraft, Everina, 1765-1841. rcp
• Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (Firm) rcp
• Archibald Constable & Co. rcp
• Longman & Co. rcp
• G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England) rcp
• Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925