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Title: Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes
Vol. II
Author: Edward FitzGerald
Editor: William Aldis Wright
Release Date: February 6, 2007 [eBook #20539]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1901 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
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LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1901
_All rights reserved_
_First Edition_ 1894. _Reprinted_ 1901
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LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD
_To E. B. Cowell_.
88 GT. PORTLAND ST., LONDON,
_Jan._ 13/59.
MY DEAR COWELL,
I have been here some five weeks: but before my Letter reaches you shall
probably have slid back into the Country somewhere. This is my old
Lodging, but new numbered. I have been almost alone here: having seen
even Spedding and Donne but two or three times. They are well and go on
as before. Spedding has got out the seventh volume of Bacon, I believe:
with Capital Prefaces to Henry VII., etc. But I have not yet seen it.
After vol. viii. (I think) there is to be a Pause: till Spedding has set
the Letters to his Mind. Then we shall see what he can make of his
Blackamoor. . . .
I am almost ashamed to write to you, so much have I forsaken Persian, and
even all good Books of late. There is no one now to 'prick the Sides of
my Intent'; Vaulting Ambition having long failed to do so! I took my
Omar from Fraser [? Parker], as I saw he didn't care for it; and also I
want to enlarge it to near as much again, of such Matter as he would not
dare to put in Fraser. If I print it, I shall do the impudence of
quoting your Account of Omar, and your Apology for his Freethinking: it
is not wholly my Apology, but you introduced him to me, and your excuse
extends to that which you have not ventured to quote, and I do. I like
your Apology extremely also,
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