Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1829-1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
3 sheets, 4 sketches, 1 env.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Jean Hilton, 1991.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letter from the 1830s[?] from FitzGerald to Hilton written after a misunderstanding brought about by an epigram he left at Hilton's door; refers to quarrelling regularly with [William] Airy as a means of preserving friendship; invites him to breakfast despite his cough. Three ink and pencil sketches, one dated 1829, are unsigned, and are possibly by FitzGerald or by Hilton. Two other ink sketches dated 1829 are also unsigned but identified by a caption as by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Accompanied by a letter from A. M. Terhune to Mrs E. Armitage about the FitzGerald letter, and an offprint of an article, "Carlyle with the late Mr Edward FitzGerald" from the Ipswich Journal, 17 July 1883.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
See also W. M. Donne to W. A. Wright, 14 Oct. 1883: Add.MS.a.284/77.
Publication note
Letter from FitzGerald to Hilton published in The letters of Edward FitzGerald, edited by Alfred McKinley Terhune and Annabelle Burdick Terhune. Princeton, 1980, vol. IV.
Notes area
Note
Accompanied by letters relating to the provenance.