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        <title type="main">William Godwin to William Hone, 8 October, 1821</title>
        <title type="sub">An Electronic Edition</title>
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          <name key="Hone, William, 1780-1842">William Hone</name>
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        <p>For publication in the Hone Correspondence section of the William Hone BioText,
          http://honearchive.org. The letter is published under a Creative Commons license, details
          of which are accessible from the BioText homepage.</p>

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        <p>Transcribed from the original at Oxford University, Bodleian Library,
          MS.Shelley.adds.c.13.</p>
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        <head><ref type="person" target="whoswho.html#GodwinW">William Godwin</ref> to William
          Hone, <date when="1821-10-08">8 October, 1821</date>. <anchor xml:id="citation"
            /><note resp="#KG" place="foot">Oxford University, Bodleian Library,
            MS.Shelley.adds.c.13. The letter is noteworthy not for its content but for its
            demonstration of the ongoing relationship between Godwin and Hone.<ref
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            <salute>Dear Sir</salute>
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            <p>You are Mahomet, &amp; I am the mountain. "Great bodies move slow," &amp; I rarely
              go out of my house before two. Your note rather increases rather than removes
              uncertainty, I am afraid therefore our meeting must stand for to-morrow.</p>

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          <closer> Faithfully yours<lb/>
            <signed>W Godwin</signed>
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            <p><date when="1821-10-08">Oct. 8, 1821</date></p>
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