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Title: Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)

Author: Edward FitzGerald

Editor: William Aldis Wright

Release Date: May 14, 2007 [eBook #21434]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD TO
FANNY KEMBLE (1871-1883)***

Transcribed from the 1902 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

LETTERS
OF
EDWARD FITZGERALD
TO
FANNY KEMBLE
1871-1883

EDITED BY
WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1902

_All rights reserved_

_First Edition_ 1895
_Second Edition_ 1902

{Edward FitzGerald. From a photograph by Mess. Cade & Wight, Ipswich:
pi.jpg}

Of the letters which are contained in the present volume, the first
eighty-five were in the possession of the late Mr. George Bentley, who
took great interest in their publication in _The Temple Bar Magazine_,
and was in correspondence with the Editor until within a short time of
his death. The remainder were placed in the Editor's hands by Mrs.
Kemble in 1883, and of these some were printed in whole or in part in
FitzGerald's Letters and Literary Remains, which first appeared in 1889.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
20_th_ _June_ 1895.

{Frances Anne Kemble. Engraved by J. G. Stodart from the original
painting by Sully in the possession of the Hon. Mrs. Leigh: pii.jpg}

LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD TO FANNY KEMBLE
1871-1883

'Letters . . . such as are written from wise men, are, of all the words
of man, in my judgment the best.'--BACON.

The following letters, addressed by Edward FitzGerald to his life-long
friend Fanny Kemble, form an almost continuous series, from the middle of
1871 to within three weeks of his death in 1883. They are printed as
nearly as possible as he wrote them, preserving his peculiarities of
punctuation and his use of capital letters, although in this he is not
always consistent. In writing to me in 1873 he said, 'I