Joseph Hume (Somerset House clerk) manuscript material : 4 items, 1816

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Joseph Hume (Somerset House clerk) manuscript material : 4 items, 1816

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· Memorandum (copy) unsigned : 11 Jun 1816 : (S'ANA 0040) : copied in an unknown hand, with minor revisions in the hand of William Godwin; relating to Shelley's attempts to raise money for Godwin; begins, "In my first conferences with Mr. Bryant I found his terms to be 30 years purchase on the Rental of the land to be purchased by him..." Published with commentary as SC 331 in Shelley and his Circle, v. IV, p. 686. · To William Bryant of Sussex, probably an attorney : 3 letters relating to Shelley's estate -- 1 autograph letter signed : 14 May 1816 : (S'ANA 0406) : from Victualling Office, Somerset House; on behalf of Godwin, begins, "I forgot whether I informed you that Mr. Shelley is gone out of own for about three weeks." Published with commentary as SC 329 in Shelley and his Circle, v. IV, p. 682. Tipped into Pforzheimer copy 1 of the first edition of Shelley's Adonais. Shelved as *Pforz 557L 10. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jun 1816 : (S'ANA 0450) : from Vict Office; begins, "When we last parted it was your intention to call on Mr. Teasdale ..." Published with commentary as SC 354B in Shelley and his Circle, v. IV, p. 837. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Jul 1816 : (S'ANA 0407) : from Victualling Office London; relating to Shelley's financial transactions; begins, "It is now a fortnight since you left me with an intention of making an application to Teasdale ..." Published with commentary as SC 337 in Shelley and his Circle, v. IV, p. 726. Tipped into Pforzheimer copy 1 of the first edition of Shelley's Adonais. Shelved as *Pforz 557L 10.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Godwin, William, 1756-1836

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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. In the conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth. Their daughter, later known as Mary Shelley, would go on to writ...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Hume, Joseph, 1767-1843.

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Joseph Hume, a clerk in the Victualling Office at Somerset House. Not to be confused with the radical parliamentarian of the same name, this Joseph Hume was a friend of Charles Lamb and William Godwin, and published a translation of Dante's Inferno for Cadell and Davies in 1812. From the description of Joseph Hume (Somerset House clerk) manuscript material : 4 items, 1816 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 433644375 ...

Bryant, William, of Sussex.

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