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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.

Chelsea.

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

Heidelberg [on printed notepaper for Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge]. - Bessie's letter and enclosures reached him abroad; he and Mary have had a 'very nice 4 days at the Hague', where he found many letters from Marlborough to Heinsius in the Archives. Janet has joined them now, and they are on their way to Blenheim [Blindheim]. Thanks Bessie for sending the 'old papers'; the one on Pitt was 'not much use', but he is glad to have the 'famous pamphlet' advocating the murder of [Oliver] Cromwell, "Killing No Murder", which he may have bound when he gets home. So, 'it is the last of Welcombe'; hopes it 'won't become a Popery-hole', but everything else is 'most satisfactory'; glad it is 'off [Bessie's] hands'.

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'.

1 loose sheet at front: 'Copies. Letters from Carlyle - on "Cromwell", Extract of Letters from S[avile] M[orton]'

'Edward Fitzgerald. Littlegrange. Woodbridge' written on flyleaf, recto; on verso 'Letters from Thomas Carlyle, chiefly concerning Cromwell'

ff 1-36r: Copies by FitzGerald of letters from Carlyle, dated mid-Sept 1842-6 Nov 1874, with occasional notes and annotations by FitzGerald. Most letters written directly into book, though ff 34-36 (letter of 6 Nov 1874, not in FitzGerald's hand) pasted in.

ff 36v: Note by FitzGerald on 'the following Enquiries concerning th[e] one Long Parliament Election on record', sent to him by Carlyle in about 1846 or 1847 [in fact in 1844] 'to be answered & elucidated by Mr Davy, an old Suffolk Gentleman then residing in... Ufford near Woodbridge'. Davy was 'duly acknowledged & complimented as "Dryasdust"' in the paper Carlyle published on the subject in Fraser's Magazine [Oct 1844].

ff 37-39: Copy of the enquiries on the Long Parliament election (as above) sent by Carlyle to FitzGerald.

Reading from other end of book: 'Extract from letters of Savile Morton' written on flyleaf, verso; Morton's name later crossed out and 'an ill-starred Man of Genius'. 'Finished copying out at Midnight, Sunday May 27, 1866. Edward FitzGerald, Market-hall, Woodbridge' is legible below despite further crossing out. A loose sheet is pasted to the bottom of the flyleaf, on which Fitzgerald has written 'Fragments of some Letters from an ill-starred Man of Genius'' and added in pencil below 'for a Notice of Morton see at th[e] end of th[e] Letters'; other notes in pencil are probably in another hand.

ff i-iii: Three sheets bound together with tape found loose after flyleaf, containing a biographical note on Morton in FitzGerald's hand.

ff 1-61r: Copies by FitzGerald of letters from Morton, dated 28 Oct [18]40-Jul 1845, with occasional notes and annotations by Fitzgerald. Occasional pages have been cut out, and a series of stubs (about 11 ff) follows f 61. The letters themselves, or portions of them, are sometimes pasted in, particularly to include illustrations by Morton, as follows:

f 5r: 'Petrarch's Chair', pen and ink illustration
f 16r: Part letter of 10 Sept 1842 (once pasted in, now loose)
f 17r: Part letter with pen and ink sketch of ruins in Rome
f 23r: Pen and ink sketch of lamp.
f 50: Part letter, discussing Keats.

Several of the letters refer to Thompson's British Museum colleague T. N. Nichols' investigations into the shorthand alleged by William Squire to have been written by Cromwell. 60/248 is a letter from Nichols to Thompson, 11 Feb 1886, sent on by Thompson to Wright on 12 Feb 1886.

Chelsea. - Thanks Fitzgerald for the plan of Winceby [site of a battle, 11 Oct. 1643] and the details of findings there, sent to Fitzgerald by Elizabeth Charlesworth. 'You will therefore congratulate Miss Charleston; who really is a famous girl,—and ought to be courted, I should say, by any man at liberty for such enterprises...'

Chelsea. - 'Thanks for your Copy of the [Cromwell?] Letter. It was, as you surmised, one of Dawson Turner’s; but this is more of a facsimile- worth having too..'

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'.

Chelsea. - 'I have expressly named you and the Lady Olivia to His Grace [the Duke of Manchester], as the benevolent persons who, under Providence and him, are to get me a Copy of that Paper or Letter of Oliver’s, without farther travel or trouble of mine!' A note at the top of the letter explains that this is 'Lady Olivia Sparrow; Aunt, I think, to the then Duke of Manchester' [she was in fact his grandmother]. The friend of FitzGerald's at Kimbolton referred to by Carlyle is William Airy, the Duke's domestic chaplain.

Chelsea. - 'You will do me a real favour if you can, thro’ your Friend Browne or any other eligible channel, procure me a winter requiem for this horse of mine. I hope to have finished my affairs here in about a fortnight; am off then towards Scotland:—and should be very glad to annihilate the Horse till the end of February next...'; it is a good horse, but Carlyle will have no need of it until then.

'Cromwell’s own things are now all out of my hands,—the last this very day: but there is a conclusion to do, an Index &c &c: there is still certainly a fortnight’s work in the business. You will get the Book to try your hand upon in October (so the Booksellers arrange)'

Chelsea. - Asks FitzGerald to look over 'Two Leaves [of proofs] on Naseby'; the new Cromwell letters and 'botherations' are 'really very distressing' to him as he has to find a way to incorporate them into his Cromwell book when he thought it was done with. Discussion of Cobden and Corn Law repeal. Asks whether Davy will know anything about Sir John Burgoyne, MP during the Long Parliament, and his son Roger.

Letters from 1842-1844 largely concern FitzGerald's investigations at Naseby and Cromwell's progress on his edition of Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches. Also includes letters from J. A. Froude and John Ruskin to FitzGerald, letter from C. E. Norton to Carlyle, and notes and transcripts by FitzGerald and Carlyle.

Typed sheet headed 'Carlyle and FitzGerald' pasted in at front, explaining the circumstances of their first meeting in Sept. 1842.

'Appendix to Cromwell's Letters & Speeches' in gold lettering on spine. Inscription on second front endpaper: 'To E. Fitzgerald Esq with kind remembrances. T. Carlyle. Chelsea, 14 Nov[embe]r 1849'.

Extensive pencil annotations and corrections in FitzGerald's hand made to the printed text of 'The Squire Papers'.

Chelsea. - Sends the proposed inscription for the stone to be erected at Naseby; FitzGerald is welcome to make any changes he wishes; the hardest thing will be to find out the date of FitzGerald's excavations there; suggestions as to the nature of the monument. Cannot promise to go with FitzGerald; cannot sleep since he left Suffolk; sends best wishes to people there.

'Siste Viator

Here, and for — yards to rearward, lies the Dust of Men slain in the Battle of Naseby, 14 June, 1645. On and near this spot, it appears by due investigation, was the brunt (crisis?) of the Battle. Saturday (date is not in the Book; try if you can discount it [indecipherable word])—1844 2(?), this ground was opened (not irreverently), as the last link of evidence; and the ashes of the old Dead answered mutely, Yes. Yea (See Carlyle’s “Cromwell,” in loco [crossed through and question mark in pencil], and the Authorities indicated there).

Edwd Fitzgerald
—Septr 1855'

Endorsed 'For the Pillar at Naseby'.

'Siste Viator

Here, and for — yards to rearward lies the Dust of men Slain in the Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645. Hereabouts appears to have been the crisis of the struggle, hereabouts the final charge of Oliver Cromwell and his Ironsides, that day.

This Ground was opened, not irreverently or with[ou]t reluctance, Sat[urda]y 23? Sept[embe]r 1842, to ascertain that fact, and render the Contemporary records legible. Peace henceforth to these old Dead.

Edwd Fitzgd (with date)'

'This with a wider margin, or in some other way distinguishable from the rest of the inscription' [written by Carlyle at the side of the text and connected by a line to the passage beginning 'This Ground was opened...'

Note in FitzGerald's hand at bottom 'Here is for some.... yards to Westward & to Eastward - '

Endorsed 'Naseby Pillar (briefest and final form)'.

With extracts from contemporary accounts.

Chelsea. - Is glad that FitzGerald is 'astir on the Naseby-Monument question; and that the auspices are so favourable'; thinks inscription will do; advice on the monument; asks FitzGerald to let him bear half of the expence. 'Pollock has told you an altogether flattering tale about my strength &c. It is nearly impossible for any person still on his feet to be more completely useless.'.

Partly written in J. A. Froude's hand, as per postscript: 'J. A. Froude (just come to walk with me) scripsit'

5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea. - Sorry for the trouble FitzGerald has had with the Naseby monument; hopes the enterprise will be satisfactorily completed next year. Comments on Forster's Life of Dickens: finds in it 'a veritable Photograph of all the days of the years of Dickens, which will be held in some remembrance so long as Dickens himself is considered worth remembering'. Can send Froude's book on Ireland, 'an excellent work', if FitzGerald wishes

[Not in Carlyle's own hand].

The Hill, Dumfries, N. B. [North Britain, i.e. Scotland]. - Regrets that their 'poor little enterprize [putting up a monument at Naseby] is definitively forbidden' to them. Knows that the time FitzGerald has spent on this 'cannot be repaid you, dear old friend, except by my pious thankfulness...', but asks him to tell him how much money he has spent so that he can pay half.

The day after tomorrow he and his 'blithe little niece' will leave here for Chelsea. Letter not in Carlyle's hand [perhaps his niece Mary's?] but signed by him.

On embossed notepaper, Bottesford Manor, Nr Brigg. - Is sending a sale catalogue which includes a book containing a sketch by Oliver Cromwell; has examined the book and believes it to be a genuine sketch of the Battle of Naseby; no other details known; historical importance; hopes Milnes will advise about Society of Antiquaries in due course.

Veronica, Silverdale, nr Carnforth. - Thanks Bob for sending his "New Parsifal"; will get him to write his name in it when he comes north. Read it with much 'zest and enjoyment' as if he had never done so before; thinks it has all 'come quite fresh and delightful'. Sure it is 'first rate and... will last a long time'; eager to see what the reviewers say, as soon as Bob has a 'bundle of cuttings' he can spare'. The 'Chiswicks [Chiswick Press] have managed the cover very well'; the 'arrangement with Bickers' [printers and booksellers] sounds good, and will probably be 'more efficient' than Longmans or 'liitle [Charles Elkin?] Matthews'. Will remember all this for "Mrs Lear" [his forthcoming "King Lear's Wife"], but thinks he should try Heinemann first as Bob suggests. Thanks Bob for taking the trouble to see [Edward] Marsh and writing; will follow up this opening as soon as he can; unfortunately the typescript [of "King Lear's Wife"] is not yet ready, since he has had a 'few bed-days', and there is an 'Old-Man-of-the-Sea of a plumber here' who makes work 'impossible'. The house is ready to move into; they are going to Allithwaite on Friday, on to Well Knowe for a fortnight, then 'back here for ever. This is a 'damned place, full of old maids collecting for the provision of woollen comforters for deep sea fishermen'.; mentions the suggestion in the local directory that Silverdale is named after 'Soever', a 'hardy Norseman'. Promises Bob that 'Mrs Lear' will be his 'Lenten task', and to get the typescript to Marsh by Easter.

Had a letter from [John] Drinkwater three weeks ago, who said he had seen Bob, and also asked for the 'refusal' of 'Mrs Lear'; have therefore promised to send him a typescript too. Drinkwater sent his [play] "[Oliver] Cromwell....."; Bottomley at length replied he was 'on his side about King Oliver', but that Drinkwater should not 'write poetry like a partisan'. Ernest Newman was 'offensive and vulgar' about [Wagner's] "Parsifal"; loathed' him as Bob did. Wishes he could have seen the opera with Bob. As it has just gone out of copyright, has bought a cheap score; expected it to be 'good but vegetarian and flabby' so was glad to see it 'so much huger' than expected; thinks 'the Amfortas... more moving than anything else in Wagner'. Has got hold of a Bohn edition of the Grimm "Fairy Tales" 'just like' Bob's, and now he and his wife read them out loud in the evening. Very glad that Julian is better: 'suppressed influenza' seems to have been a great danger for children recently, and Lady A[lice] Egerton says her little niece almost died of it. Hopes Sir George is also better. Adds a postscript to say that the French musical review S. I. M. ["Société internationale de musique"] for 1 January has a 'good portrait' of R[alph] Vaughan Williams and a piece on "Les Post-Elgariens" by Marcel Boulestin.

Cutting from unidentified newspaper. Refers to Houghton's specimens of Cromwell, Robespierre and General Grant. With news agency label addressed to 2nd Lord Houghton.

Shortened version of HOUG/DF/1/63. Refers to Houghton's specimens of Cromwell, Robespierre and General Grant. With news agency label addressed to 2nd Lord Houghton.