Letters and Literary Remains - 1 Author:Edward FitzGerald Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Macmillan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where yo... more »u can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: To E. B. Cowell. 12 Marine Terrace, Lowestoft. Dec. 28 [1867.] My dear Cowell ... I don't think I told you about Garcin de Tassy. He sent me (as no doubt he sent you) his annual Oration. I wrote to thank him : and said I had been lately busy with another countryman of his, Mons. Nicolas, with his Omar Khayyam. On which De Tassy writes back by return of post to ask ' Where I got my Copy of Nicolas ? He had not been able to get one in all Paris !' So I wrote to Quaritch: who told me the Book was to be had of Maisonneuve, or any Oriental Bookseller in Paris; but that probably the Shopman did not understand, when ' Les Rubdiydt if Omar« less