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- 4 Dec. 1889 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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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.
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Tipped into O. 10a.42.
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- Groome, Francis Hindes (1851-1902), scholar of Romani life and writer (Subject)
- Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian (1819-1899), bookseller and publisher (Subject)
- Simpson, William (1823-1899), watercolour painter and journalist (Subject)
- Kerrich, Walter FitzGerald (1829-1913), army officer, nephew of Edward FitzGerald (Subject)
- Clodd, Edward (1840–1930) banker and popular anthropologist (Subject)
- Groome, Robert Hindes (1810-1889), Church of England clergyman (Subject)
- Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar (Subject)
- Kemble, Frances Anne (1809–1893), actress and author (Subject)