Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Section B:

Political Correspondence (1840-1849,

1873-1894) (59 items)

(i) Thomas Davis (1840-1844) (9 items)

3 6 December 1840 Letter, from J.R. Atkins, 7 Charlotte Quay, Cork, to Thomas Davis, 61 Baggot Street, Dublin. ‘It being past 12 & headaches at work I cannot write the…critique on your pamphlet…’. Atkins writes that his perusal

of it will “make Mr Atkins a Radical’ and ‘…with many of your sentiments I agree, upon others I ponder and the rest we will both condemn by and by’. Congratulates Davis on praise from ‘the brotherhood of your Society’. Signed ‘your affectionate cousin’.

4 17 May 1842 Letter, from Thomas Wallis, 29 College [College Green, Dublin] to Thomas Davis, 61 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. Wallis says he has only just received Davis’ note and manuscript. He does not think there will be room for more than the 2 chapters Davis sent, or that the map will be done this month. He is glad to hear Davis is ‘…so much recovered as to anticipate a speedy renewal of your acquaintance with the open air…’. Mentions Roebuck, a ‘clever little terrier’, who has redeemed himself from the stain of his ‘one shilling-gallery’ tomfoolery. Postscript mentions article in Blackwood for January 7, 1839 containing some ‘admissions & anticipations’. 4pp 5 18 May 1843 Letter, from Michael Doheny, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, to ‘My Dear Davis’ (Thomas Osbourne Davis), 61 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. ‘If you come down, which I sincerely hope, you will abide with me…’. Asks why Duffy (Charles Gavan Duffy) does not publish his rhymes. Doheny says he had ‘concocted an epistle to the Queen from a

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