Item 11: Letter from F[erdinand] Freiligrath to Bayard Taylor, [no year] October 26
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Dates
- Created: [no year] October 26
Creator
- Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter
Condition Note:
Fair. Tear in the top and bottom of the middle seam when opened.
Measurements:
8 ¾ in. x 7 in. opened; 4 ⅜ in. x 7 in. closed
Description:
The letter is authored on October 26th of an unknown year by German poet and translator, Ferdinand Freiligrath to American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat, Bayard Taylor, attempting to set up a meeting. The term Ultima Thule is used as a traveling phrase when it is an “extreme limit of travel and discovery” within the Oxford English Dictionary. It is, perhaps, used here as a jest by Freiligrath when discussing traveling to Hackney with Bayard.
Location:
3 Sussal Place, Hackney; Gibraltar
Transcription:
3 Sussal Place, Hackney
Tuesday morning,
October 26th.
Dear friend,
I hope that you will not leave for Gibraltar before Friday and that I shall thus have the pleasure of enjoying a quick evening’s talk with you at my fire side. Mrs. Freilgrath will also be delighted to see you again. The best plan to come safely the Hackney (that suburban Ultima Thule, which to a westend, man seems more distant, than even the White Nile and the resident of H. M. the King of the Crocodiles) will be, to call for me at my office, 8, Just(?) Court, H. Mary Axe. The railway station is very near to it, and we might then go together.
Pray come at ab[ou]t ¼ to five o’clock. I shall wait for you, unless you don’t write to the contrary.
I thank you still for the opportunity you gave me of making James Russell Lowell’s interesting acquaintance.
Yours always
very truly
F. Freiligrath
To Bayard Taylor.
Creator
- Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 (Person)
- Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 1810-1876 (Person)
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (Person)
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