The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward Fitzgerald (Volume 7); Including a Complete Bibliography and Interesting Personal and Literary Notes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... EXTRACTS FROM FITZGERALD'S LETTERS RELATING TO THE "LAMB CALENDAR." To J. R. Lowell. Woodbridge, April A, 1878. Now I enclose you a little work of mine which I hope does no irreverence to the Man it talks of. It is meant quite otherwise. I often got puzzled, in reading Lamb's Letters, about some Data in his Life to which the Letters referred; so I drew up the enclosed for my own behoof, and then thought that others might be glad of it also. If I set down his Miseries, and the one Failing for which those Miseries are such a Justification, I only set down what has been long and publicly known, and what, except in a Noodle's eyes, must enhance the dear Fellow's character, instead of lessening it. 'Saint Charles ' said Thackeray to me thirty years ago, putting one of C. L.'s letters 1 to his forehead; and old Wordsworth said of him: 'If there be a Good Man, Charles Lamb is one ' To C. E. Norton. Woodbridge, April 17, '78.... Only you will certainly read my last Great Work, which I enclose, drawn up first for my own benefit, lThat to Bernard Barton about Mit ford's vases, December 1, 1824. in reading Lamb's Letters, as now printed in batches, to his several Correspondents; and so I thought others than myself might be glad of a few Data to refer the letters to. Pollock calls my Paper 'Cdtelette d'Agneau a la minute.' The "Lamb Calendar," with additions in FitzGerald's writing, is printed in photographic facsimile herewith, by the kind permission of the owner, Mr. W. Irving Way, of Chicago, and of Mr. J. A. Spoor, for whose bibliography of Lamb the plates were made. The footnotes printed in italics are further additions by FitzGerald to the copy used by Mr. W. Aldis Wright. CHARLES LAMB, 1775 Born February io, in Crown Office Row, Middle Temple, where his Father...