Stuk 4.55 - The Squire papers; list of the Long Parliament; and lists of the Eastern-Association committees..., with letters from Thomas Carlyle to Edward FitzGerald

1 vol., c. 227 x 1470 x 13 mm. pp. 1-42 (printed); 14 ff., MS, tipped in; pp. 43-84 (printed).

Gift of William Aldis Wright, FitzGerald's literary executor, 1901 (as recorded by bookplate, inside front cover).

'Appendix to Cromwell's Letters & Speeches' in gold lettering on spine. Inscription on second front endpaper: 'To E. Fitzgerald Esq with kind remembrances. T. Carlyle. Chelsea, 14 Nov[embe]r 1849'.

Extensive pencil annotations and corrections in FitzGerald's hand made to the printed text of 'The Squire Papers'.

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/

Squire, W., Carlyle, T., & Cromwell, O. (1849). The Squire papers; list of the Long Parliament; and lists of the Eastern-Association committees : as adjoined to volume second, third edition, of Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and speeches. London: Chapman and Hall.