• Name: White, James
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 17  April  1775
• Death Date: 13  March  1820
• Occupation: author
• Occupation: advertising agent

Godwin enters the death of James White on 12 March 1830. This is James White, (bap. 1775, d. 1820) see DNB. White was a close associate of Lamb, having been at school with him, and standing as one of Lamb's Bondsmen. J/Jas White first appears in 1799, there are a few entries between 1799-1803 and then many between 1808 and 1816. Most are calls/meets - the only one connected to Lamb is:
29 May 1800: 'tea J White's , w. Lamb and Gutch:'
Gutch is likely to be John Mathew Gutch (1776-1861), who went to school with Lamb and White and Lamb was lodging with Gutch during this year. It seems as if we have enough to identify the early J/Jas Whites as Lamb's friend. However, it is strange that most of the entries are meets/calls, which suggests a business relationship. As the entries only take off from 1808, perhap Godwin is dealing with White in his professional capacity as an advertising agent, getting his help for advertising Juvenile Library books. There are a few letters sent and received but these have not been located.

The difficulty is to disentangle these White's from those who continue in the diary after his death. What is most striking about those that follow is that there is effectively an 8-year gap between frequent contact in 1816 and then again in 1824. However, the pattern of contacts is similar - call on or is called on by. There is not much evidence of a connection with Lamb, indeed, although there are White entries connected with Lamb they are not Jas White. Which suggests that Jas White might be someone distinct from James White (this entry, Lamb's friend and DNB entry) and that Godwin may be entering instances of this White in a different way.

In a letter to Patrickson on 4 February 1812 Godwin refers to talking to James White, who is married to Mr Faulder's daughter (and the DNB recognises this in its entry on this James White: White married Margaret Faulder (1792–1864), daughter of Robert Faulder, a bookseller, in 1811, and they had six children.') Faulder helped to support Patrickson at Cambridge.

• MS. Abinger c. 11, fols. 79-80: 4 Feb. 1812
• The Times, 30 November 1835
• DNB
• William Carew Hazlitt, The Lambs; their lives, their friends and their correspondence; new particulars and new material (London, 1897)

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.