MOORE, Thomas. The Fudge Family in Paris.

Edited by Thomas Brown, The Younger, author of the Twopenny Post-Bag.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818. First edition. 12mo. pp. viii, 168. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by triple gilt fillets and gilt roll, an inner octagonal blind-stamped panel with gilt circles at each corner; board edges and turn-ins gilt. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on maroon morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; splash marbled endpapers. Tipped in to front endpaper is a newspaper clipping of the death notice of 'Ellen, the beloved and last surviving sister of our illustrious countryman, Thomas Moore', dated in ink 14th. of February, 1846. A very good copy.

Moore's later years were saddened by domestic grief, his children having all died before him. In 1846 we read the sad announcement "the last of our five children is gone and we are left desolate and alone; not a single relative have I now left in the world". His father had died in Abbey Street in 1825, and his mother in 1830; his sister Ellen at Blackrock, Dublin, in 1834. They are all three buried in St. Kevin's churchyard Camden Street, Dublin, where the last entry on the tombstone on Ellen reads "to the great grief of her brother Thomas Moore the bard of his beloved country, Ireland."
Of his children three had died in early youth and two sons early in their careers. Barbara died in 1817 aged five; Anastasia in 1829 aged seventeen; and Olivia in infancy. John R. Moore died in 1842 aged nineteen. The last surviving son was the eldest Thomas L. Moore who died on active service in Algiers in his twenty-eighth year while serving as an officer in the French Foreign Legion.

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