Janus: Letters to Revd R. Wilkin Rees concerning Edward Fitzgerald

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.2744.20	Anonymous journal of a tour from Lyons to Paris
MS Add.2744.22	Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed in microscopic handwriting
MS Add.2744.23	Note announcing the capture by the French of a ship carrying books for the University of Cambridge
MS Add.2744.3	Pater Costerus: 'Tuyt geschout'
MS Add.2744.4	Cambridge household accounts
MS Add.2744.5	Letters to Revd R. Wilkin Rees concerning Edward Fitzgerald
MS Add.2744.6	Benjamin Hanbury: Notes on R. Elton, 'Life of Roger Williams', and other works
MS Add.2744.7	Passport for W. F A. Gaussen
MS Add.2744.8	Fragment of a flyleaf with the inscription: 'Robertus Prichard est verus possessor huius liberi [sic] 1.2.3.'
MS Add.2745	Design for a military and Naval trophy to be erected in honour of Queen Victoria
MS Add.2755	Alphabetical list of incunabula and later printed books to 1653 in the University Library, Cambridge
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Letters to Revd R. Wilkin Rees concerning Edward Fitzgerald

Title	Letters to Revd R. Wilkin Rees concerning Edward Fitzgerald
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2744.5
Covering Dates	1895–1907
Extent and Medium	1
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), poet and translator, was born at Bredfield House, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, on 31 March 1809. He entered King Edward the Sixth's Grammar School at Bury St Edmunds in 1821, and joined Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1826 (B.A., 1830). Fitzgerald settled in Suffolk, and worked on the translation of classical texts, many of which were published anonymously. His best known work is an English translation from the Persian of the 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám', published anonymously in 1859. Fitzgerald died at Merton Rectory in Norfolk on 14 June 1883.

All are letters to Wilkin Rees except where indicated.

Presented by Sir Stephen Gaselee, 16 May 1939.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Letters to Revd R. Wilkin Rees concerning Edward Fitzgerald, MS Add.2744.5

Index Terms

Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883) writer and translator

Manuscripts/MS Add.2744.5 contains:

MS Add.2744/5/1

From Hon. Alicia Margaret Tyssen Amherst, Lady Rockley.

4 Dec. 1895

MS Add.2744/5/2

From W. Aldis Wright.
2 letters.

12 July 1901–31 Aug. 1901

MS Add.2744/5/3

From W. Aldis Wright.

31 Aug. 1901