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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.

Meeting held at the Stock Exchange. Signed by James Van Sommer, the secretary of the Committee for General Purposes.

(Dated Saturday, and franked 10 June 1820.)

(Transcript in Turner’s hand. At the head is written, ‘The original is among Autographs, Series B.’)

(Transcript in Turner’s hand. At the head is written, ‘The original is among Autographs, Series B.’)

Secretary's Office, Hunt's Bank, Manchester. - Enclosing extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Manchester, 2 Sept. 1885, expressing their regret at the death of 'their highly valued colleague the late Lord Houghton'.

36 Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh. - Remembers now that the name of the artist [who sent back the seeds from the rose on the grave of Omar Khayyám] was Simpson, but did not know it was Quaritch to whom the seeds were sent. Asks if Quaritch can have a scion of the rose-tree planted at FitzGerald's grave in Boulge; knows FitzGerald's nephew and executor Colonel Kerrich would gladly have it done, having mentioned the idea to him a few months ago when he heard about the rose from Mr Clodd. Could also photograph Bredfield Hall and Farlinghay if Quaritch requires it. Groome's father knew Aldis Wright, but he himself does not.

Adds postscript: Fanny Kemble's reminiscences, as they first appeared in the Atlantic, had many references to FitzGerald. Groome knows an old lady at Ipswich who has a fine engraving of FitzGerald's mother.

(Appended are extracts from a letter to Molini, in French, dated at Florence, 30 Oct. 1819.)