William Godwin's Diary

Diary entry for March 1812

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March

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Mar. 1. Su.Write to Place. Caesar, çala. Call on Place{.} E Fk calls (M Lamb, Hoxton): Burr dines, & P Hd.

2. M. Write to Smirke. Place calls twice, tea: M calls: call of Theobald & Lambert: Jo G calls: H Robinson sups.

3. Tu. Letter to Shelley, p. 5. Place calls: theatre, w. M J, Julius Caesare.

4. W.Shelley, p. 7; send. Royal Slave, acts 1 & 2. Burr calls, au soir.

5. Th. Royal Slave, acts 3, 4, 5. Call on Cline, w. M, & on Place: A Harwood calls: Burr dines.

6. F. Holy day, çala. Burr calls: call, for him, on Bagster & Cuthel.

7. Sa. Hamilton, p. 228. Burr at tea: meet Jas White: M dines.

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Mar. 8. Su. Cartwright, &c. Call on Place (adv. Lambert) & Lamb.

9. M. Write to Baker & Merridew. Call on Priestley, adv. T & C T: Hume dines: theatre, w. M M, M[or?]ville & Turn Out.eBradley absent

10. Tu. Persius, Sat. III. Place & Lambert call, from Hamond: Burr & Hume dine. E Fk & E Topping call.

11. W. Persius, Sat. II, IV.

12. Th. Write to B M. Persius, Sat. V: Hamilton, p. 248. Call on Hamond, Phillips & Jas White: Jas Smith calls: to the pla: Burr dines, to the playe.

13. F. Persius, Sat. I, v. 55. Place (from Hamond) & Burr: call on Hume: H Robinson at tea.

14. Sa.Write to Shelley. Persius, v. 75. Hamond & Burr call.

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Aurora, capt. Potter Newbury Port, Massachusets Mar. 25, 1812 A B Mrs Alston Charles Town South Carolina

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Mar. 15. Su. Persius, Sat. I (fin) & VI. E Fk & M Hopwood dine; adv. Burr.

16. M. Call on Place, Lambert, & Burr for M J,: Hogan calls. Write to Baker. Bacon, çala. M calls.

17. Tu. Eliot, Governor, çala. Hume dines; adv. Lb, Hamond & E F: calls, Burr, &T T.

18. W. Letter to Tuthill. Widow, acts, 1, 2, 3. Miss Plowden, E Topping & Burr call.

19. Th. Widow, fin: Wit without Money, act 1. Call on Place. J H Tooke dies .

20. F. Write to Fairly, Tuthill & West. Wit without Money, act 2. M & Burr call: call on S Hayesn: Hamond & Hogan at tea.

21. Sa. Write to C C. Burr calls.

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Mar. 22. Su.Persius, Sat. I: Cherbury, p. 87. Dine at Hume’s, w. M J, Burr, Woodart & miss Pullman; adv. mrs Thomson; invité Lamb.

23. M. Cherbury, p. 173, fin: Agonistes, acts 1, 2, 3. Burr calls n. Topping at Pimlicoe

24. Tu. Legend, read.Agonistes, fin. Burr calls. Write to Curran.

25. W. Legend, read. Paradise Regd, B. I: May’s Lucan, çala: Trial of Cha. I, çala. Mills, Dadley & Jo G call: Burr dines. Call on Poole.

26. Th.Life of Chillingworth, p. 256. Burr, ppc, Place & Lambert (for Mullet) call: call on Place & Rodd. F, M & J dine at H Boinville’s.

27. F. Chillingworth, p. 372, fin. Call on Place, &Dawe (bust, &c); adv. E & O Fk, & Carlisle: H R sups. L Ht marriede.

28. Sa. Write to Saffery. Paradise Regd, B. II: Spenser, Mutabilitie; Eclogues, 10 & 11. E & O Fk, & 3 Hopwoods dine: call on Phillipsn.

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Mar. 29. Su.Paradise Regd, B. III: F Queen, C. I: Cleveland, çala: Maccabees, çala. M Bouthron dines.

30. M. Write to Shelley. Paradise Regd, B. IV: F Qun, C. II, III. Call on Knowles: Humes call, & Ackermn.

31. Tu. F Queen, C. IV, V. Theatre, w. M J, M, J, W, & R & W Collier; Maid of Mill, & White Cate.

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