Manchester, 16 December 1869 

Dear Moor, 

Enclosed—the desired remittance. This time I have been able to 
make it one hundred pounds, since a minor error to my 

a See this volume, pp. 395, 396-97. - > Ibid., pp. 397-98. - © J. Ph. Curran, The 
Speeches of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran, 2nd edition, Dublin, 1855. - 
d J. P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. - © painful 

disadvantage was found in the last accounts, and Sir Godfrey* had 
to make it good to me subsequently —:r wit come IN For Curisrmas. 

That damned Giraldus Cambrensis dances before me like a 
will-o’-the-wisp. I must get the fellow, since he is the first foreign, 
that is to say first authentic, source on the state of Ireland on the 
arrival of the English, and the quotations I have seen lead me to 
believe that I shall find something more. The book, called 
Hibernia expugnata,° is nowhere to be found, but the first part, 
which interests me, is in the Frankfurt (!) edition of Camden’s 
Britannia,’ 1 don’t know whether tn another edition. This edition is 
naturally not here; an English edition in the Free Library does not 
contain Giraldus”; the third volume of another edition in the 
Jending library which might contain it is lost, and thus my only 
hope is the Chetham Library,*’ to which I shall go tomorrow. 
Incidentally, this hunt for sources is quite a different sort of 
pleasure than it was to hunt for customers on the blasted stock 
exchange. 

Are Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland and Political Survey of 
Ireland two different works, or only different editions? For the 
latter is here. 

I have here a later edition of Kane’s book; the one from you is 
unfortunately of little use because of its age (1846).°% 

I am making a written record of each period as soon as I have 
fairly finished my studies. Then you have the interrelations more 
clearly in your head and, altogether, a more vivid idea of the 
business, and can still make corrections. That is why, on the whole, I 
am keeping so strictly to the historic periods in arranging the order 
in which I plough through sources. I am nearly finished up to 1600. 

On the side, I am reading Grant's Campaign against Richmond by 
Cannon. Grant is a self-willed jackass who had so little confidence 
in himself and his army that he never dared undertake the 
simplest flanking manoeuvre against Lee, who was weaker by half, 
before he had weakened him by several days of frontal attack and 
had nailed him down in his original position. He relied upon the 
simple calculation that if he lost three men for every one of Lee’s, 
then Lee would run out of people before he did. Nowhere else 
have there been such brutal butcheries as on that occasion. It was 

4 Gottfried Ermen - > Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia hibernica et expugnatio 
hibernica. In: Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, Vol. V. - © G. Camdenus, Britannia, sive 
florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scote, Hibernia, et insularum adiacentium ex intima 
antiquitate.- 4 J. Cannon, History of Grant’s Campaign for the Capture of Richmond 
(1864-1865). 

the day-long skirmishes in the forests that cost so many lives; the 
wooded terrain made detours very difficult, and this is Grant’s 
only excuse. 

Best greetings to the Laptzs. 

Your 
F. E.