Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: John Hatfield Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1803-1804
Collection Number: SC 138
Extent:
.05 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
John Hatfield Collection. SC 138. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains a bound volume, "The Trial of John Hatfield," containing a handwritten account from the
Carlisle Journal [England] re Hatfield's trial on charges including impersonating a member of Parliament (Alexander Augustus Hope) and forgery,
1803; together with copies of letters from Hope to the Rev. [W.?] Nicholson, 1804. Hatfield had married Mary Robinson, a Lake
District beauty, and as a result of the public outcry during the trial, poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
came to her defense. Hatfield was found guilty and hanged for his offences.