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↑ Up one levelCorrespondence from Edward Fitzgerald
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Reference code
GB 891 BQ-BQ/3
Publication status
Published
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
2 files
Date(s)
- 4th Feb 1876 - 2nd Mar 1876 (Creation)
Context area
Name of creator
(1809-1883)
Biographical history
Edward Fitzgerald was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. He was born in Suffolk, lived part of his childhood in France, and attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a lifelong friend of Bernard Quaritch who published his the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1857, at first anonymously.
Repository
Royal Asiatic Society Archives
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series contains 2 letters from Edward Fitzgerald to Bernard Quaritch concerning Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
System of arrangement
The letters were arranged chronologically.
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Language of material
- English
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