• Name: Hammond, Elton (Hamond)
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 1786
• Death Date: 31  December  1819

Hammond was a wealthy supporter of Godwin's who assisted in the refinancing of the bookshop between 1811 and 1812, see St Clair. Mary Shelley's Journal p. 41, n. 3 describes Godwin's financial crisis and the arrangements made with Place and with the assistance of Elton Hamond and John Lambert.

Hamond was the eldest of two sons of a tea-dealer. His father died in 1807 leaving him sole executor. Henry Crabb Robinson came to know him through the Aikins. Hamond's elder sister lived for many years with Mrs Barbauld. Elton Hammond sought the acquaintance of eminent men such as Jeremy Bentham, SIr Stamford Raffles, Dugald Stewart, Frederick Pollock (later Lord Chief Baron). He became reclusive, a compulsive journalist of his thoughts, dreams, and days, and kept the company of small children. He took his own life and the inquest found him to be insane. There is a substantial note on Elton Hamond in Henry Crabb Robinson , ed Sadler, vol. 2, p 141-7.

There is also an H Hamond who appears twice in 1814 but who is uncoded.

Godwin records his death.

(See the Abinger letter of 13 July 1812(identified as to Hamond from G's Diary) in which Godwin embraces his offer to help in his affairs and notes that Mr Place has declined to provide further assistance. Also a further letter of 20 July 1812 in which Godwin says he has had to take matters further to protect his family. There is also a copy of a letter dated 12 Mar. 1812 from Hamond to Archibald Constable in Edinburgh sounding out Constable on the prospects of Charles Clairmont returning to london in the next two years to manage the bookshop.)

• MS. Abinger c. 11, fol. 92: 13 July 1812
• MS. Abinger c. 11, fol. 93: 20 July 1812
• MS. Abinger c. 39, fol. 18: 12 Mar. 1812
• St Clair
• The journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, ed. by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1987)
• Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. by Thomas Sadler (London: Macmillan, 1869)

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