“Mr Flint
presents his compliments to Mr Godwin,
and is desired by Lord Pelham to acquaint
him that he is extremely sorry he cannot at the present moment grant the
passport Mr Godwin requests to enable him to go to
Paris.”
Sir Charles William Flint (1777-1834)
He was private secretary to the Duke of Wellington and under secretary of state for
Ireland (1827).
William Godwin (1756-1836)
English novelist and political philosopher; author of An Inquiry
concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793) and Caleb
Williams (1794); in 1797 he married Mary Wollstonecraft.
Thomas Pelham, second earl of Chichester (1756-1826)
The son of the first earl; educated at Westminster and Clare Hall, Cambridge, he was a
Whig MP for Sussex (1780-1801) and Home Secretary (1801).
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Author: C. Kegan Paul
Title:William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876).
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