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Title: Letters of Edward FitzGerald
in two volumes, Vol. 1

Author: Edward FitzGerald

Editor: William Aldis Wright

Release Date: January 27, 2007 [eBook #20452]

Language: English

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

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Transcribed from the 1901 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN AND COMPANY

1901

_All rights reserved_

_First Edition_ 1894. _Reprinted_ 1901

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PREFACE

In compliance with a very generally expressed wish that the Letters of
Edward FitzGerald should be separated from his Literary Remains, they are
now issued with some additions to their number which have not before
appeared. It was no part of my plan to form a complete collection of his
letters, but rather to let the story of his life be told in such of them
as gave an indication of his character and pursuits. It would have been
easy to increase the number considerably had I printed all that I
possess, but it seemed better to create the desire for more than to incur
the reproach of having given more than enough.

Since these volumes were completed a large number of letters, addressed
by FitzGerald to his life-long friend Mrs. Kemble, have come into the
possession of Messrs. Richard Bentley and Son, and will shortly make
their appearance. By the desire of Mr. George Bentley I have undertaken
to see them through the press.

WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
31 _March_, 1894.

NOTE

In vol. ii. p. 181 the date 1875, which was conjectural, has been changed
to 1878, in which year September 22--the day on which the letter was
written--was a Sunday. There was a Musical Festival at Norwich in both
years, and the same Oratorios were performed, and this led me to put the
letter out of its place.

W. A. W.

PREFACE TO LETTERS AND LITERARY REMA