Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Letter, from Charles Gavan Duffy, to Denny Lane, Sydney Parade, Cork. He chastises Lane for not writing to him since Lane returned to Cork. ‘Barry has told you of our Great Design – does it not warm you ?’ Lane, he says, is ‘the only man in Munster whose aid we ask or desire – John Dillion for Connaught, John O’Hagan for Ulster, John Pigot for Leinster and Denny Lane for Munster’. Duffy expects Lane to sign a solemn covenant to that effect. Mentions ‘the promised volume’ for the Library of Ireland and Ballads for The Nation, and that the library is tolerably provided for 12 months, ‘…but then you must come to the rescue...’. There has been a letter from Dillion ‘who is improving apace’. Hopes Lane will not be tempted to go into Parliament at present as ‘…what can a man do there now. By and Bye the good time will come – but you must wait for it’. 3pp 19 27 April 1846 Letter, from Charles Gavan Duffy to Denny Lane, 4 Sydney Place, Cork. ‘I have got your books from…Davis…’. He understands that Madden is in Cork, and asks Lane to say to Madden that he trusts ‘nothing has happened to interfere with the good understanding that I hoped existed between us…’ Asks Lane of his promised doings, ‘the time to do them is now before you enter public life – now, now, now ‘. Mentions his efforts to get a horse ‘as you did not get me a horse when O’Gorman was with you’. Expects a definite answer on the subject of ‘our Northern Excursion’. Postscript, ‘Davis’ poems are just out – beautifully printed, and carefully edited’. 4pp 20 1 June 1846 Letter, from Charles Gavan Duffy, to ‘My Dear Lane’, Denny Lane, Sydney Parade, Cork. ‘I wrote to you so long ago that the date may have been lost in the Fire of London…’. Concerns Lane’s volumes of Parliamentary Debates which Duffy has sent to Barry, who will bring them to Cork. Duffy queries as to a convenient time ‘for our fellow tourists to truck down on the North’, asking Lane to write to him via The Nation office. Continues, ‘We are living in a whirlwind here- but it is fine training for our future…and I wish you were in the midst of it’.

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