Item 53 - Letter from J. D. Duff to W. Aldis Wright, with copy extracts of a letter. 23 Jun 1877 of Edward FitzGerald [to W. Aldis Wright]

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Letter from J. D. Duff to W. Aldis Wright, with copy extracts of a letter. 23 Jun 1877 of Edward FitzGerald [to W. Aldis Wright]

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1 letter (1 folded sheet) with one enclosure (1 folded sheet)

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Trinity College, Cambridge. - Sends a copy of FitzGerald's letter, 'or of the part of it Munro had written out on the flyleaf of his book'. Does not understand the penultimate sentence, but has copied it correctly, and is unsure whether the last sentence 'belongs to the letter or not' as there are no quotation marks at the end.

With extracts from the FitzGerald letter on separate sheet, on Lucretius

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      Published in Wright's Letters of Edward FitzGerald: In Two Volumes p 218 of the 2nd edition (1901).

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