Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"

The biography of a hero written by his valet would be interesting, and, according to proverbial wisdom, unbiased by the heroic repute of its subject. But it would be artificial...

"Neighbour's fare" was long in coming to FitzGerald in his venture as a "herring merchant." But he was happy enough in the consciousness that he was doing Posh a good turn. Whet...

It is impossible to arrive at the exact sum of money which FitzGerald brought into the partnership between him and Posh, but it must have been something like five hundred pounds...

There must always be an interval ashore between the return of the drifters from the western voyage and their sailing north to follow the herring down from Aberdeen to Yarmouth....

The poor mackerel season ended in the second week of July. Why, when mackerel were so scarce, the _Meum and Tuum_ did not give up the fishing and try for "midsummer herring" it...

FitzGerald having made up his mind to give Posh a lift by going into partnership with him began by finding not only the money for the building of the boat but a name for her whe...

". . . Posh--after no fish caught for 3 weeks--has had his boat come home with nearly all her fleet of nets torn to pieces in last week's winds. . . . he . . . went with me to t...

During the winter of 1869-70 it seems that Posh conceived the idea that the capital of the firm of FitzGerald and Fletcher justified the working partner in increasing the stock-...

Posh does not remember the last occasion on which he spoke to his old "guv'nor," but he says that whenever he did see him he, FitzGerald, would take him by the blue woollen jers...

Posh says that there "were lots o' breezes" between him and his "guv'nor," and when the reader of this study (who should have got to know something of FitzGerald's attitude by n...

Though the partnership was over, FitzGerald by no means gave up his friendship for Posh. From time to time he saw him, and from time to time he wrote to him, and always he retai...

The hopes for the home fishing of 1869 should have been good. On August 30th, 1869 (_Two Suffolk Friends_, p. 114), FitzGerald wrote to Mr. Spalding from Lowestoft: "You will se...

In 1867 Posh sold the old _William Tell_ to be broken up. She was barely seaworthy and unfit to continue fishing. An agreement was entered into with Dan Fuller, a Lowestoft boat...

Previously to the termination of the partnership FitzGerald had commissioned S. Laurence to paint a portrait of Posh. On the 13th January, 1870, he wrote to Laurence from Woodbr...

Now that the _Meum and Tuum_ was ready for work FitzGerald's anxiety for the lives of her crew made him insist upon their taking life-belts aboard with them, although the mate h...

"I never wanted you to puzzle yourself about the Accounts any more, but only to tell me at a rough estimate what the chief expenses were--as, for instance, Shares, &c.--I beg to...

In September, 1870 (which would be just before the home voyage began and after the Northern voyage was over), Posh seems to have "celebrated" more than his whilome partner and t...

In 1866 Posh became the owner of a very old deep-sea lugger named the _William Tell_, and, to enable him to acquire the nets and gear necessary for her complete equipment as a N...