- Creator
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 386 items
- Preferred Citation
- William Godwin manuscript material : 386 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Location
- Pforz MS
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request access to this collection.
William Godwin, English philosopher and novelist. 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. Other documents include library call slips, memos of agreement for business deals, and Godwin's last will and testament.
Key terms
Names
- Arch, John, fl. 1792-1838 (Recipient)
- Aspland, Robert, 1782-1845 (Recipient)
- Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803 (Recipient)
- Bartley, George, 1782-1858 (Recipient)
- Baxter, William Thomas, b. ca. 1764 (Recipient)
- Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871 (Recipient)
- Blackwood, William, 1776-1834 (Recipient)
- Blanchard, Laman, 1804-1845 (Recipient)
- Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849 (Recipient)
- Booth, David, 1766-1846 (Recipient)
- Bowring, John, 1792-1872 (Recipient)
- Bryant, William, of Sussex (Recipient)
- Burney, Charles, 1757-1817 (Recipient)
- Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 (Recipient)
- Caunter, Hobart, 1794-1851 (Recipient)
- Chalmers, George, 1742-1825 (Recipient)
- Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877 (Recipient)
- Colburn, Henry, -1855 (Recipient)
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 (Recipient)
- Curran, Amelia, 1775-1847 (Recipient)
- Curran, John Philpot, 1750-1817 (Recipient)
- Dawe, George, 1781-1829 (Recipient)
- Dillon, Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, Viscount, 1777-1832 (Recipient)
- Fenwick, John, 1739-1823 (Recipient)
- Flather, John (Recipient)
- Gaskell, Daniel, 1782-1875 (Recipient)
- Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836 (Recipient)
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836
- Gough, Richard, 1735-1809 (Recipient)
- Hamilton, S. (Samuel) (Recipient)
- Harwood, William Tooke (Recipient)
- Hays, Mary, 1759 or 1760-1843 (Recipient)
- Hill, Thomas, 1760-1840 (Recipient)
- Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834 (Recipient)
- Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Recipient)
- Hone, William, 1780-1842 (Recipient)
- Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821 (Recipient)
- Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833 (Recipient)
- Kenney, James, 1780-1849 (Recipient)
- Longman, Thomas Norton, 1771-1842 (Recipient)
- Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834 (Recipient)
- Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835 (Recipient)
- Merivale, John Herman, 1779-1844 (Recipient)
- Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851 (Recipient)
- Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849 (Recipient)
- Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858 (Recipient)
- Moxon, William, 1808- (Recipient)
- Northcote, James, 1746-1831 (Recipient)
- Northmore, Thomas, 1766-1851 (Recipient)
- Ogborne, Elizabeth, 1763 or 64-1853 (Recipient)
- Ollier, Charles, 1788-1859 (Recipient)
- Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853 (Recipient)
- Parkes, Joseph, 1796-1865 (Recipient)
- Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852 (Recipient)
- Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875 (Recipient)
- Place, Francis, 1771-1854 (Recipient)
- Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, -1850 (Recipient)
- Rickman, Thomas Clio, 1761-1834 (Recipient)
- Rodd, Thomas, 1763-1822 (Recipient)
- Sharp, Richard, 1759-1835 (Recipient)
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Recipient)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Recipient)
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 (Recipient)
- Shield, William, 1748-1829 (Recipient)
- Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 (Recipient)
- Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854 (Recipient)
- Taylor, John, 1750-1826 (Recipient)
- Taylor, John, 1757-1832 (Recipient)
- Taylor, John, 1781-1864 (Recipient)
- Taylor, Richard, 1781-1858 (Recipient)
- Tieck, Ludwig, 1773-1853 (Recipient)
- Wilson, Effingham, 1783-1868 (Recipient)
- Wilson, Walter, 1781-1847 (Recipient)
- Wollstonecraft, Everina, 1765-1841 (Recipient)
- Archibald Constable & Co. (Recipient)
- G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England) (Recipient)
- Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (Firm) (Recipient)
- Longman & Co. (Recipient)
Subjects
- Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- English essays -- 18th century -- Manuscripts -- Specimens
- English essays -- 19th century -- Manuscripts -- Specimens
- Fiction -- 19th century -- Manuscripts -- Specimens
- Philosophers -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Correspondence
- Philosophers -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319