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Monograph also includes notice of Charles Buller, and is accompanied by engraved photographs of both Lady Baring and Buller. pp 225-255, with proof of p. 257 from another version of the Monograph.

Written out in FitzGerald's hand: 'Mr Froude's Receipt of Carlyle's Papers [crossed through] Letters which are to be delivered to W. Aldis Wright for Trinity College Library and if thought worthy my own Book of Extracts for W. A. W.'s own Library'.

10 letters. Item 2 includes a transcription of a letter from Oliver Cromwell to Thomas Hill 23 Dec. 1649 (Harleian MS 7053 ff. 153b)

Chelsea.

Cautioning against excessive eulogies.

St. Andrews. - Delighted to hear Sir Robert and Lady Peel will subscribe for the support of Mrs Begg [the sister of Robert Burns]. ‘I suspect that Carlyle and you have the merit between you of bringing about the business'.

Critical comment on Carlyle's philosophy and followers.

Chelsea.

Chelsea. - '...You shall be appointed Topographer-General when I come to be King...'

Refuting suggestions of Carlyle's hostility towards science.

Thomas Carlyle quoted at p. 114.

Re memorial to Thomas Carlyle

Signed by T. C. Wilson of Drummonds Bank.

Pall Mall - WW 'should be informed of an event that agitates the literary world. Squires [William Squire] has arrived in town'. Squires is the descendant of Oliver Cromwell and did do the absurd things Carlyle [Thomas Carlyle] says he did.

Text of letter of 13 Mar. 1843, 'published years ago in a Scotch newspaper'.

Chelsea.

On Economist assessment of Carlyle's literary work.

Chelsea. - FitzGerald has 'not drawn Cromwell's house at all! It seems to be Stewart's house at Stuntney, Cromwell's uncle's, but not Cromwell's own'. Hopes that FitzGerald, or his friend Peacock, will 'take a real portrait' of Cromwell's house in Ely city centre 'while it yet stands'.

36 Wilton Crescent, S.W. (on Wallington headed paper). - Is pleased that Lady Trevelyan likes his book ["Atalanta in Calydon"]; it was finished just after Landor's death which he much regrets. Much enjoyed the composition of the poem, which 'was very rapid and pleasant'; thinks it is 'pure Greek, and the first poem of the sort in modern times': feels that Shelley's "Prometheus [Unbound]", though 'magnificent', is 'un-Hellenic', and gathers from Lewes's life of Goethe that his "Iphigenia in Tauris" is also 'impregnated with modern morals and feeling"; also dismisses [Matthew] Arnold's "Merope". Is 'raging in silence' about the delayed publication of [Thomas] Carlyle's volumes: the subject [Frederick the Great] 'was always a hero' of Swinburne's who is impressed by his 'clear cold purity of pluck', which is not inspired by faith. Frederick seems free of 'perverse Puritan Christianity' on the one hand, and 'the knaveries and cutpurse rascalities' of the Buonapartes on the other; Swinburne can almost forgive him his bad poetry. Is very glad to hear good news of Sir Walter and the building projects; wishes she were in London for [Ford] Madox Brown's exhibition, which is 'superb'. Is currently staying at the house his father has taken in London for the winter, and is looking for rooms for himself; his father has completed the purchase of Holm Wood [Holmwood] in Oxfordshire. Feels that Tennyson should have made a better choice of his "Selections": feels that "Boadicea" should have 'served as prelude to the book'; thought Tennyson's 'volume of last summer' ["Enoch Arden"] a 'new triumph'.

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking. - Hopes his father is 'comfortably settled' at Welcombe; he and Bessie were sorry to hear from his mother that she had a cold, and hopes she has by now recovered. Julian 'continues splendidly well and is getting on in every way except locomotively, for he does not even try to move from one place to another'.

Finished Clayhanger, a 'wonderfully good novel': hopes Bennett can 'keep the next two parts up to the level of the first'. Will now have to read the Old Wives Tale. They are still reading aloud Frederick the Great, and are now coming to the 'quarrel with Voltaire'; Bessie usually takes 'no interest in accounts of battles, but admits that Carlyle's battles are different', as are George's accounts of those of Garibaldi.

Hopes to see George in London next week, at least 'at the Cambridge dinner on the 16th': these dinners are 'a very good institution, as one meets Cambridge people of all ages, whom one has little chance of meeting otherwise'. Will write to his mother soon.

Chelsea. - Will go [to Naseby] next week if FitzGerald likes, and if Spedding will go with him.