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Loder, John (1828-1917) bookseller and printer
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Notecard and letter from John Loder to W. Aldis Wright
Add. MS a/6/18-19 · Item · 19 Jun-27 Sept 1905
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Burkitt House, Woodbridge. Answers to queries from Wright the recent biography of Edward FitzGerald by Thomas Wright, whom Loder calls 'TommyRot'. Says 'Our dear E.F.G. has up to this time been singularly unfortunate in his biographers'.
Letter from John Loder to Bernard Quaritch
O./10a.42/No. 111 · Part · 10 Dec. 1889
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Woodbridge. - Asks Quaritch to send him Coues' Birds of the Northwest... Does not know anything about Aldis Wright's being the owner of FitzGerald's copyright, other than 'the letter addressed to him, and leaving him the box of MSS. as asserted in the preface by A. W.' Asks if Quaritch has had much demand for the book. FitzGerald left him a self-portrait by Raphael Mengs, 'a d-d ugly fellow - but as good as Rembrandt, only in a different way of course'.

Remembers coming now and again to 'worry' Quaritch forty-four years ago when a Collector at Simpkins.