page_title: Edward Ellerker Williams
section_title: Journal and notebooks
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Ellerker Williams / Journal and notebooks
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch by Williams from Notebook (circa. 1819-1822)
context_page_description: Edward Ellerker Williams was a retired army officer who became a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the final months of his life and died with him.
context_section_description: Williams produced at least four journals or notebooks in addition to Sporting Sketches during a Short Stay in Hindustane. The original copies can be viewed at three libraries:
  Journal (21 October 1821 – 4 July 1822) recording his day-to-day activities during the eight-month period before the fatal drowning accident on 8 July 1822 is part of the Special Manuscript Collection at the British Library, London (Add. 36622).
  Notebook (circa. 1819 – 1822) containing many sketches, botanical specimens, fragments of poems, and one particular pencil portrait that might be of Shelley is now part of the Donald Prell Collection of Edward John Trelawny at the Honnold/Mudd Special Collections at the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.
  http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/joe
  Notebook (28 May – 2 June 1819) recording his travels on the continent with his friends and family, manuscript in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library (call number S’ANA 0399)
  Journal (18 April - 2 December 1807) Holograph manuscript Log of HMS Superb in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (call number S'ANA 0153)
caption: Sketch by Williams from Notebook (circa. 1819-1822) Transcription of text at top of the sketch:
  "Must people render themselves ridiculous, not by appearing what they are, but by appearing what they are not?"
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