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Title
Date(s)
- 1853-1899 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 vol., quarterbound in leather over marbled paper, c 220 x 180 x 45 mm: 122 letters, bills, postcards etc tipped in onto paper stubs; a couple of photographs and some printed sheets also tipped in. 1 loose printed card.
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Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Photographic mages of letters from this volume reproduced in Charlotte Wrentmore's 1926 edition of letters from FitzGerald to her father and other FitzGeraldiana show that the various numbers on the top right of letters themselves were already present.… read more
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Charlotte N. Quaritch Wrentmore, May 1938, 'in memory of her late father Bernard Quaritch', as recorded in the inscription on the first free flyleaf.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Most letters in the run Nos. 1-96 are letters from FitzGerald to Quaritch, 21. Apr. 1953-23 Feb. 1883. Letters from others have been described in dependent entries. Several letters annotated by Quaritch. Notes by Charlotte Quaritch Wrentmore at several… read more
Allied materials area
Related units of description
A couple of other letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch can be found in the Royal Asiatic Society Archives, reference BQ/3.
Publication note
FitzGerald, E., & Wrentmore, C. Q. (1926). Letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch, 1853 to 1883. Bernard Quaritch.