19 Carleton Road, Tufnell Park, N. - Has made some extracts from FitzGerald's letters, especially relating to the separate publication of the Rubáiyát 'in reference to which Mr Aldis Wright broke his instructions two years after he had written to you declaring he could "not violate" Mr FitzGerald's "distinct orders" Either his memory is very bad, or his conscience is very elastic' [This section is not printed in Charlotte Quaritch Wrentmore's 1926 edition of FitzGerald letters to her father and other FitzGeraldiana].
Now returns the letters; thanks Quaritch for entrusting to them. Will fetch the book with FitzGerald's bookplate which he lent
Pontefract. - Enclosing text of a resolution adopted at a meeting held in the Town Hall that day, conveying sympathies on the death of the first Lord Houghton.
(Undated; ‘perhaps about Dec 10’ has been added at the head in pencil.)
A note on the death of Jane Macaulay added at the end of the letter, perhaps by Fanny Macaulay
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