Item 4.54 - Letters from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

1 vol., c. 269 x 210 x 22 mm. 58 individual numbered items tipped in; 1 typed unnumbered sheet pasted in at front.

Gift of William Aldis Wright, FitzGerald's literary executor, 1901.

Letters from 1842-1844 largely concern FitzGerald's investigations at Naseby and Cromwell's progress on his edition of Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches. Also includes letters from J. A. Froude and John Ruskin to FitzGerald, letter from C. E. Norton to Carlyle, and notes and transcripts by FitzGerald and Carlyle.

Typed sheet headed 'Carlyle and FitzGerald' pasted in at front, explaining the circumstances of their first meeting in Sept. 1842.

The other side of this correspondence, FitzGerald's letters to Carlyle about Naseby, along with sketches and watercolours of the area, can be found at Cambridge University Library, ref. MS Add. 7062.

Carlyle's letters to FitzGerald are published in Ryals, et al. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Duke-Edinburgh ed., Duke University Press, 1970-. Transcriptions available online at Carlyle Letters Online (CLO): https://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/