R. W. Hayward manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1819

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R. W. Hayward manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1819

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· Legal opinion : [ca. 17 Feb 1819] : (G'ANA 0041) : prepared for William Godwin; on the significance of the agreements between Godwin and Archibald Constable and Company for the publication of Godwin's Mandeville. N.B. Shelley and his Circle surmises the document "was probably authored by R. W. Hayward ... and was very likely written out by one of his clerks" (v. VI, p. 776).

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8198325

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...

Hayward, R. W. (Richard W.), d. 1824.

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Richard W. Hayward, solicitor at Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane in London. He worked for both William and Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley. From the description of R. W. Hayward manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1819 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 775692186 ...