unpublisht

Even if Froude's explanation of the matter be correct, he ought to have still taken any hesitation on Carlyle's part as sufficient proof that the MS. were best left unpublisht: or, at any rate, great part of it.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846

Froude's Letter to me is a curious one: a sort of vindication (it seems to me) of himself -- quite uncalled for by me, who did not say one word on the subject. {243b} The job, he says, was forced upon him: 'a hard problem '-- No doubt -- But he might have left the Reminiscences unpublisht, except what related to Mrs.C. -- in spite of

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846