Note on f. 1r: 'The College feels that it will be a matter of great historical interest in after times to have a record of the names, ranks, & home-addresses of those U.S.A. and Dominion Officers who are its guests during the war. Visitors are therefore requested to enter these (& any other particulars which they may care to record) in this book, together with the date of their visit'.
Note on f. 2 r. 'This book was bought, on the instructions of the College Council... on November 7th, 1942, & placed in the rooms at the north end of the Master's Lodge which were set aside as bedrooms for U.S.A. & Dominion Officers staying in College during the war. Before it was institute three officers had stayed in these rooms. As they had no opportunity to enter their names in the book, they have been entered by the Deputy Junior Bursar'. These three names then follow.
The rest of the book is filled in by the officers themselves; as well as dates of stay, names, rank, and addresses, places of education are often recorded; brief comments of appreciation of Trinity and Cambridge are often added. There is a poem by J. P. Clemenceau Le Clercq, 'A Ballade of Thanks to Trinity College', dated 9-10 Nov. 1944, on ff. 46-47
'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'.
Sem títuloChelsea. - Originally enclosing a letter from Squire, describing the burning of the 'Cromwell letters'; comparatively little use now for FitzGerald to call on Squire, but Carlyle still wishes he would. Dawson Turner has already tried to see Squire's material, but without success.
CA/9/2: Including letter from Augustus Stafford O'Brien to Charles Justin MacCarthy, [11 Nov. 1835 or later]
CA/9/4: Including letter (cancelled note) from Robert Oxley to Richard Monckton Milnes, [1837?]
CA/9/2: Including letter from Augustus Stafford O'Brien to Charles Justin MacCarthy, [10/11] Dec. 1837
Informing Milnes that Dr. Oxley thinks his father is 'most seriously ill' and wishes Milnes to come. 'Obstruction continues. Brain clear'.
Telegram handed in at Knottingley and received at Edgware.
Typescript of Suffolk Sea Phrases by FitzGerald, ed. Ganz); typescript 'Foreword' [to Ganz's Gleanings from Edward FitzGerald], dated 31 Mar (1939 added by hand then crossed through and corrected to 1944 with list of dated quotations, and letter [?] headed 'An Edward FitzGerald Scrap-Book', signed by Ganz (dated Bexhill March 3 1947).
Many of the following items have labels and notes by Ganz on the back: 88 sheets of photostats and other copies of FitzGerald letters, dating 1857-1883; reproductions of portraits of FitzGerald (10 items); reproductions of FitzGerald family portraits (17 items); photographs (some originals) of FitzGerald's friend Joseph Fletcher, "Posh (8 items); photographs of boats, several bearing name of George Crabbe (7 items); portraits and photographs (copies and originals) of associates of FitzGerald, birthday card (19 items); photographs and postcards of buildings and places with FitzGerald associations (25 items); MS copies of 8 letters by FitzGerald by Edith Hawes Craven with accompanying letter to Ganz (1933).
Letters (4) by FitzGerald; letter to FitzGerald by Thomas Carlyle; letter from Joseph Fletcher to James Blyth.
Also xerox copies of letters relating to the copyright of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, by FitzGerald, Bernard Quaritch, and others, with accompanying letter sent to [C. R.] Dodwell by A[lfred] McKinley Terhune (1964).
Knottingley Parsonage. - His attempts to secure Knottingley curacy; Rev. C. G. Smith now thought unlikely to resign.
1 Providence Terrace, St Lawrence, York. - Congratulations on Milnes' marriage. In postscript, explains that he 'continue[s] stipendiary Curate of St Lawrence, York, and see[s] little or no prospect of obtaining an Incumbency, after near 30 years of arduous & onerous labours in the Church'.
Chelsea. - Is waiting for FitzGerald's news of William Squire. 'If he can lay his foolish old hands on those “Lists &c,” or any fraction, snip or remnant of that poor burned manuscript, I should like to have it instantly. I must endeavour to work up the distracted enigmatic Extracts he has given me into some printable condition, so soon as possible, lest they too by some new mischance be annihilated. If therefore he have anything whatever more, pray urge him to send it me without much delay'.
Chelsea. - Encloses another message from 'our rusty Yarmouth friend [William Squire]'; the note which FitzGerald sent him is about the wrong man, as 'his Squire is evidently not the Unitarian Squire,—nor indeed any Squire that belongs to our century, or knows what o’clock it has now become!'. Wishes 'some rational eye could get upon these old Papers of his, and fairly examine them'; Carlyle himself must 'fight rather shy,—and restrict myself to ascertaining whether there are any more Oliver [Cromwell] Letters'; would obviously be very happy to see them if there are.
Bay House, Alverstoke, Hants. - Encloses letter from a 'strange rusty old Yarmouth gentleman [William Squire]' about 'Civil-war matters', who has ' curious Papers, which ought to be inquired into!'; since Squire is in FitzGerald's district, asks him to 'bite at the bait and elucidate him a little'