[William Godwin] to Percy Bysshe Shelley | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

[William Godwin] to Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelfmark

MS. Abinger c. 19, fols. 50-1

Summary

Fair copy, in unknown hand

Fragment, on the study of history

Mentions [John] Milton; [William] Shakespeare; [George] Chapman; [?Francis] Bacon; Sir Thomas Brown; Jeremy Tailor ? Jeremy Taylor; Robert Burton; Isaac Walton [Izaak Walton]; Mabbe; [Thomas] Shelton; [Erasmus] Darwin; [Robert] Southy [Southey]; [Walter] Scott; ?Thomas Campbel [Campbell]

Incipit: I sit down the sooner...