CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
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Edward FitzGerald and "Posh", by
James Blyth
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Title: Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"
Author: James Blyth
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FITZGERALD AND "POSH"***
Transcribed from the 1908 John Long edition by David Price, email
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EDWARD FITZGERALD AND "POSH" "HERRING MERCHANTS"
INCLUDE A NUMBER OF LETTERS FROM EDWARD FITZGERALD
TO JOSEPH FLETCHER OR "POSH," NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED
BY JAMES BLYTH
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh", by James Blyth
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WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON JOHN LONG NORRIS STREET, HAYMARKET MCMVIII
Copyright by John Long, 1908 All Rights Reserved
TO W. ALDIS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A. VICE-MASTER OF TRINITY
COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE I DEDICATE THIS SKETCH WITH MOST
SINCERE THANKS FOR HIS INVALUABLE ASSISTANCE IN
CONNECTION THEREWITH AND FOR HIS PERMISSION TO PRINT
THE LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD WHICH ARE NOW
PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME
JAS. BLYTH
March, 1908
{"Posh" Fletcher in 1870. Taken for Edward FitzGerald: p0.jpg}
PREFACE
There can be no better foreword to this little sketch of one of the phases of
Edward FitzGerald's life than the following letter, written to Thomas
Carlyle in 1870, which was generously placed at my disposal by Dr. Aldis
Wright while I was giving the sketch its final revision for the press. The
portrait referred to in the letter is no doubt that reproduced as the
photograph of 1870.
"DEAR CARLYLE,
"Your 'Her