Edward FitzGerald Life and Letters – Overview of all letters

These files form part of an archive of research material relating to the Life and Letters of Edward FitzGerald.  The data have been compiled by independent researchers W H (Bill) Martin and Sandra Mason;  their contact details are below.  The files comprise a number of searchable listings of information contained in FitzGerald’s letters.  The information formed input to a book on Edward FitzGerald which is referenced below.

This section of the archive contains a large database, efgdb, giving an overview of the letters, their dating, the people to whom FitzGerald wrote, his location at the time of writing, and a broad classification of the content of each letter.  The letters are those contained in the collection published by A M Terhune and A B Terhune in 1980 – see reference below.  An explanatory README text file contains further information on the database, including a table showing the fields included in the database and giving definitions of them and of the codings used where relevant.