Manchester, 25 January 1870 
Dear Moor, 

It was a great relief to learn that, this time, it was only a 
glandular abscess, not a carbuncle. In view of your decisively 
anti-lymphatic temperament, the involvement of the gland (axil- 
laris) can only be secondary and not mean anything. This state of 
affairs is fully explained by the prolonged neglect that arose from 
you treating the thing as a carbuncle. 

Prendergast *— finally received, and, as always happens, two 
copies at once; W. H. Smith & Sons have also got hold of one. I 
shall be finished with it tonight. The book is important because of 
the many excerpts from unpublished documents. No wonder it is 
out of print. Longman & Co. must have been furious at having 
been induced to put their name on such a book, and since there 
was certainly little demand for it in England (Mudies have not a 
single copy), they will have sold the edition for pulping as soon as 
possible, or, also possible, have sold the edition to a syndicate of 
Irish Landlords (for the same purpose), and will certainly not print 
a 2nd. What the author says about the Anglo-Norman period is 
correct in so far as those Irish and Anglo-Irish who lived at some 
distance from the Pale, continued during that period to live 

a J. P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. 

roughly the same old casual life which preceded the settlement; 
and that the wars, too, in this period were more easy-going in 
character (with a few exceptions), and had not the distinctly 
devastating character they assumed in the 16th century, and which 
became the rule thereafter. But his theory that the enormous 
amiability of the Irishmen, and particularly Irishwomen, «im- 
mediately disarms every immigrant, however hostile, is just 
THOROUGHLY Irish, since the Irish way of thinking lacks all distinction 
of degree. 

A new edition of Giraldus Cambrensis has been published: 
Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, edidit J. S. Brewer, London, Longman & 
Co. 1863, at least 3 volumes; could you find out the price for me, 
and whether it would be possible to get cheaply, second hand, the 
whole work, or at least the volume containing “Topographie 
Hiberniae’, and possibly also ‘Hibernia expugnata’.°”* 

In order not to make a fool of myself over Cromwell, I shall 
have to mug up considerably more on the English history of the 
period. This will do no harm, but will steal a lot of time. 

I am reading the French papers with thanks and interest, and 
will return them tomorrow with several numbers of Zukunft. This 
paper is becoming more and more depressing and difficult for 
both readers and writers. 

It is close of post, so adieu. Best greetings to all. 

Your 
F. E.