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- [1881-1884?] (Creation)
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Says that it was Thackeray who first took him to tea with Carlyle, in September 1842 [note that the typed account at the front of this volume, drawing from FitzGerald's own letters of 1842, suggest that it was in fact Spedding who introduced him to Carlyle]. Carlyle was 'then busy with Cromwell; had just been... over the Field of Naseby in company with Dr Arnold of Rugby, and had sufficiently identified the Ground of the Battle with the contemporaneous accounts of it'. Since FitzGerald knew the ground well, 'the greater part of it then belonging to my Family', he realised Carlyle and Arnold were mistaken, misled by an obelisk his father had set up. FitzGerald was as it happened due to go to Naseby, and decided to 'enquire further into the matter'. Notes on letters 'I-IV' and 'X'.
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Tipped into O.4.54.
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Perhaps written to accompany the letters of Carlyle to FitzGerald sent to J. A. Froude to assist in the writing of his biography of Carlyle in 1881-1884.