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William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries
Ch. VI. 1794-1796
Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, [May? 1794]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Contents Vol. I
Ch. I. 1756-1785
Ch. II. 1785-1788
Ch. III. 1788-1792
Ch. IV. 1793
Ch. V. 1783-1794
Ch. VI. 1794-1796
Ch. VII. 1759-1791
Ch. VII. 1791-1796
Ch. IX. 1797
Ch. X. 1797
Ch. XI. 1798
Ch. XII. 1799
Ch. XIII. 1800
Contents Vol. II
Ch. I. 1800
Ch. II. 1800
Ch. III. 1800
Ch. IV. 1801-1803
Ch. V. 1802-1803
Ch. VI. 1804-1806
Ch. VII. 1806-1811
Ch. VIII. 1811-1814
Ch. IX. 1812-1819
Ch. X. 1819-1824
Ch. XI. 1824-1832
Ch. XII. 1832-1836
Index
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“God bless you!

“That was the sentence I exclaimed when I had read about half a page.

“Nobody is so pleased when they find anything new as I am. I found your style different from what I have ever yet met. You
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come to the point (the story) at once, another excellence. I have now read as far as page 32 (I was then interrupted by a visitor) and do not retract my first sentence. I have to add to your praise that of a most minute, and yet most concise method of delineating human sensations.

“I could not resist writing this, because my heart was burthened with the desire of saying what I think, and what I hope for.

“My curiosity is greatly increased by what I have read, but if you disappoint me you shall never hear the last of it, and instead of ‘God Bless,’ I will vociferate, God ——m you.”