Box 9

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Letter: to "Dear Milnes" [Richard Monckton Milnes, 1809-1885 ]

ALS. Because his old friend Bernard Barton has died and left a daughter "very slenderly provided for," he writes that her friends have "persuaded her to make a selection of his letters and poems - and to publish them by subscription . . . I beg of you to help us as well as you can" by sending his letter on to Lord Northampton, and by soliciting subscriptions among his acquaintances.

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Letter: Lowestoft, to "My dear Sir"

ALS. Refers to an auction and an item for which he is bidding; his liking for Lowestoft and sailing; provisions sent by his correspondent. Fitzgerald asks him to send him several classical texts from his own house and goes on to recount the incident of a sick captain restricted to his brig in the harbor because of cholera.

Scope and Contents Letter: Woodbridge, to "Dear Sir" [Bernard Quaritch, 1819-1899]ALS. Comments on the interest the Rubaiyat has received: "a good deal of People's interest in this little Poem rises from its breathing, from so far back, a Voice which is in nearly every educated Man's heart now . . . People take a liking to it as an old Song." Goes on to reflect that "the World does not seem to have mended since Omar's Days - the same Game played - under the same Eye," and points to Germany and...

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Letters: Woodbridge, to Messrs. Smith and Elder, London

2 ALsS. Requests that past issues of Cornhill Magazine be sent to him "which tell anything" of William M. Thackeray after his death, and that recipients recommend "some good and fair-dealing Printer in London, or elsewhere."

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Letter: Wentworth Woodhouse, to J. W. Fletcher

ALS. Responds to an earlier letter of Fletcher's.

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Letter: Montana-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland, to Max Goschen

ALS. Written to the publisher of the Golden Journey to Samarkand. Flecker thanks him for raising his royalty and informs him of his next work, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid VI. He says he hopes to translate it as well as FitzGerald translated Omar, and states his preface will be as combative as Bernard Shaw's.

Scope and Contents Letter and cards: Beirut (Lebanon), Leysin, Locarno, and Montana-Sur-Sierre (Switzerland), to Harold Monro, London, 1879-19321 ALS and 6 APcS. Letter and cards contain his caustic comments on the state of poetry, and individual poets: "The state of poetry, poetic criticism & public taste is so depressing, not to say disgusting . . . I have such a savage hatred of all contemporary work except that of Yeats & Housman . . . I have a particular loathing for the works of...

Scope and Contents Letters: Montana-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland, and Davos Platz, Switzerland, to Sir [John Collings] Squire, 1884-19582 ALsS. Writes that even magazines "with the best contributors in the world . . . can't get one good or even fairly good poem to publish every week." Adds that he would like to receive a rate increase for his poetry, then goes on to explain his troubles with the Nation and states he would contribute to the New Statesman at prevailing rates. "I cannot call it not a...

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Letters: London and Bonn, to Elkin Mathews Publisher, London

2 ALsS. Two letters discussing publication of poems.