Item 10a.42 - 'Letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch, 1853-1883, Vol I'

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.

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. Pencil numbers on the stubs onto which letters are tipped in have been added at Trinity.

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.

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 places indicating that a letter from FitzGerald to Quaritch belonging to this point in the chronological sequence is to be found in the book bound up by her father, now O.10a.41.

A loose card with a typewritten record of provenance was found loose within the covers; this has been cut down from a printed ticket to provide admittance to Trinity College Library 'before 11 A. M.', with space for 'Name' 'Recommended by' 'during the... Quarter, 189...' to be filled in.

A couple of other letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch can be found in the Royal Asiatic Society Archives, reference BQ/3.

FitzGerald, E., & Wrentmore, C. Q. (1926). Letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch, 1853 to 1883. Bernard Quaritch.