Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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views with regard to me’. Asks Lane to counter any impression that he injured McCullogh’s character, as ‘even when I was smarting under financial injuries…I was not slow to recall his past kindness…’. 3pp 13 25 October 1846 Letter, from Daniel Owen Madden, Fermoy, county Cork, to ‘My Dear Denny’, Denny Lane Esquire, 4 Sidney Terrace, Cork. In reply to Lane’s kind note he says he would like to meet Mr. Meagher, but is unable to go, ‘Of his talents I am a great admirer- some of his speeches are worthy of Grattan’. Gives an account of his current activities, spending a very quiet time writing a little every day, but is ‘starving for want of standard English authors’. Asks Lane about his own library, mentioning Swift, Scott, Brother Murphy and Elton’s translation of the Odyssey. Madden is unsure of what he will do next year and has had no contact with Duffy (Charles Gavan Duffy). Recounts visit of O’Connell (Daniel O Connell), who was very ill having ‘messed too heartily on a quantity of buttered toast…He was very alarmed about himself- he apprehends that his heart is diseased…’. Madden quotes a witty remark made by O’Connell to E.B. Roche, who was not coming to the meeting concerning Roche’s excuses ‘when ever you’re wanted for any public purpose…’. Mentions that all the mail coaches are changed. Madden’s [wife] Ellen expected Lane on the day of the Railway meeting but ‘because you were expected you did not come… Johnny cries out “It’s Denny!” when he hears a knock and often mentions his stay at Sidney Place’. 7pp 14 21 June 1848 Letter from [Thomas Wallis] 78 York Road, Lambeth, London, to ‘My Dear Madden’, (Daniel Owen Madden). Concerns Madden’s writing of Thomas Davis’ life ‘a man so little known and so prematurely cut off’. The author thinks it should be published by a Dublin house. Asks if there is much in the letters (by Davis) and recommends that it be published in 2 volumes. Says that Davis is ‘extraordinarily little known in England’, while the names of most of the other Young Irelander’s have lately become familiar to the English, but Davis was gone before the party which he formed had attained recognised importance.

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