Edward FitzGerald Life and Letters – Analysis of other interests and views

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 number of databases which analyse the letters in terms of their comments on FitzGerald’s interests and activities, and his views on a variety of topics.  The databases cover current affairs (efgctaffairs), religion (efgreligion), travel (efgtravel), leisure activities (efgactivities), nature and countryside (efgnature), food and drink (efgfood), and personal matters (efgcharacter).  They also show 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.  An explanatory README text file contains tables showing the fields included in the databases and giving definitions of them and of the codings used where relevant.