William Godwin's Diary

Diary entry for May 1806

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May

May 1. Th.Raleigh, çala. H Tooke, Wordsworth, Manning & Trotter dine; adv. Lamb: invités Northcote & Hoare & Tuffin.

2. F.Call on Burdetn: British Institution & Boulogne: T T at tea.

3. Sa.Call on Burdet; adv. Maxwel: meet Jas Moore & Reynolds.

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May 4. Su.G M C dines: meet T T: sup at Rowan’s: Write to R Sharp.

5. M.Melville’s Trial, w. M J; adv. Manninge: Exhibition, w. do; adv. Perry, J Taylor, Annis (Wilkie) & Mulreadye: Mulready sups.

6. Tu. Call on Rowan, Jo G & R Taylorn: E Burnel at tea: T T calls: meet Lamb.

7. W. Call on R Johnson, Tuffinn, Wordsworth, & (w. Wordsworth & Duppa) on Edridge & Wilkie: do on Northcote; adv. Hoare: Mulready & T T call, & Rowans.

8. Th.Call on Tuffinn, Nicholson & Carlisle: tea Tuffin’s.

9. F.Marshalsea, w. Nicholson & Springsguth: call on M Lamb: Grattan & T T call: Exhibition, w. M J & 4; adv. Flaxman.e

10. Sa.Caen Wood, w. T T: T T dines: Lamb clls n: call on Nicholson, w. M J.

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May 11. Su.E Fk dines; adv. Dawes & G M C, & N G: Jo G calls.

12. M.Mutabilitie, C. I. G M C dines; adv. T T.

13. Tu.Pantheon, p. 38. Call on Lamb: mrs & miss Rowan, mrs Beresford, Perrys, Trotters, Northcote, Jas Moore, Macarthy & Boaden ddine; adv. Rowan: invités, Raine, Kemble, Sharp, Macdonald, Fuseli, Hoare & mrs Eastwick.

14. W. Barth. Fair, act 1, 2/2. Invités Boadens.

15. Th.Pantheon, p. 39. Serjeant’s Inn, w. Few & Springsguth.

16. F.Pantheon, p. 42. Ep. Martial, V, 38 to 48. Call on Wordsworth, Pentonville, w. M J: G M C dines.

17. Sa.Pantheon, p. 46. Martial, Ep. 61. Call on Nelson: T T calls.

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May 18. Su.Dine at H Tooke’s, w. Burdet, Maxwel, Clifford, Humphries, Courtenay, Wills, Moody & C C: meet John Robinson.

19. M.Call on Rogers, St James’s Place & Cornhill: Wordsworth, Wolcot & Penwarne call: German theatre, w. T Te.

20. Tu.Pantheon, çala. Virgil, vs. 270. Call on Lamb: Lamb calls & T Tn: sup at Rowan’s, w. M J.

21. W. Pantheon, p. 48/2. Virgil, vs. 521. Call on Jo Gn: Lambs, V Napier & T T sup.

22. Th.Accounts. Virgil, vs. 760. Call on Dawe & Jo G: call on Spurrier, w. M J: Dawe sups

23. F.Pantheon, p. 50/2. Virgil, II, 267. Call on Spurrier: dine at S Beresford’s, w. Rowans, Snows, Bassanet & M J; adv. Hawthorns & Woodfords.

24. // Sa.Pantheon, p. 53. Meet Mulready: Hazlit calls twice.

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May 25. Su.Pantheon, p. 55. Virgil, vs. 558. Call on Macmillan: G M C dines; adv. 3 Joyces: Mulready sups. meet Jas Moore.

26. M. Pantheon, p. 56. Virgil, vs. 804. Abbé Macarthy & Dawes call, & J J G.

27. Tu.Pantheon, p. 57, & 3 pp. Virgil, B. III, vs. 267. Hazlit calls.

28. W. Pantheon, 2 1/2 pp. Virgil, vs. 372. Bathw Fair, acts 1 & 2: St Ives, p. 100.

29. Th. Virgil, vs. 718: St Ives, p. 210: Spartan Dame, acts 1 & 2. Mulready calls.

30. F.Pantheon, 4 pp. Edgworth, Moral Tales, çala. Keir at tea.

31. Sa. Edgworth, çala. Walk w. M J & F to Belle Sauvage: call on Langhorn, Jo G n & Lamb.

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