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In the summer of 1864 FitzGerald bought a small farmhouse in the outskirts of Woodbridge, which he afterwards converted into Little Grange.
To George Crabbe.
Woodbridge: July 31/64.
My dear George,
I returned yesterday from a Ten Days’ Cruise to the Sussex Coast: which was pleasant enough. To-morrow I talk of Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
. . . Read Newman’s Apologia pro Vitâ Suâ, something of a very different order [from the ‘Dean’s English’], deeply interesting; pathetic, eloquent, and, I think, sincere: sincere, in not being conscious of all the steps he took in reaching his present Place.
To E. B. Cowell.
Market hill: Woodbridge.
Aug. 31, [1864].
My dear Cowell,