BIB_ID
294409
Accession number
MA 860.2
Creator
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.
Display Date
1874 Dec. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 22 letters from Edward FitzGerald to Horace Basham (MA 860.1-14, .16-23) and 1 letter from FitzGerald to Arthur Basham (MA 860.15). Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 860.1-23) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Mentioning his trip to Lowestoft to see his nieces, and noting his intention to visit again at Christmas. Discussing the return for herring boats, noting it is "not so good as last year." With a postscript describing the washing ashore of a ship, and developments in the weather and tide.
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