Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2

Transcribed from the 1901 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II
London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited new york: the macmillan company
1901
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First Edition 1894. Reprinted 1901
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