Edward FitzGerald Life and Letters – Analysis of writing and reading

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 database, efgliterature, which analyses the letters in terms of their comments on FitzGerald’s writings and the books and other material that he read.  It also shows the dating of the letters, the people to whom FitzGerald wrote, and his location at the time of writing.  The letters are those contained in the collection published by A M Terhune and A B Terhune in 1980 – see reference below. The database contains all the letters published by the Terhunes, including some which have no literary references.  An  explanatory README text file contains a table showing the fields included in the database and giving definitions of them and of the codings used where relevant.